Readability is part of my "simplicity in programming" goal. Regex like that scares me because sooner or later someone (generally not the original programmer) will have to look at that code and maybe even change it. Dana's solution is very slick, though.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > RE is the way to go. Simple, elegant and much quicker. > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ^<.*?>[0-9*?] [.*?] [0-9*?]</.*?> > > [0-9+]:[0-9+]:[0-9+]<br><div>[.*?]/.</div>$ > > > > assumes you want the period at the end > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: LRS Scout <[email protected]>I have a string: > > > > <strong>20 Mar 2009</strong> 15:24:52<br><div>Please stand down on this > > task > > for now. No more USMC work > > authorized.</div>< > > Date: Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:44 AM > > Subject: Regular expression Q > > To: cf-community <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > br> Mr Douglas Watts<br> > > > > [email protected]<nbsp%3b%26nbsp%3b%26nbsp%3b%26nbsp%3b%26nbsp%[email protected]> > <nbsp%3b%26nbsp%3b%26nbsp%3b%26nbsp%3b%26nbsp%[email protected]<nbsp%253b%2526nbsp%253b%2526nbsp%253b%2526nbsp%253b%2526nbsp%[email protected]> > > > > <br> &n > > bsp; 703-432-1277<br> > > > > I want to grab the div between the first <br> and the second <br>, the > div > > content. > > > > How would I do that? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293867 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
