Thank you.
> Good answers.
>
> I think you are going to want to use a regular express, or regex.
> (This is basically a smart search that matches patterns within a
> string.)
>
> So, in pseudo-English, we want to:
> Search the string for the string "Number users:" and grab anything
> between that string and the next . (period).
>
> So in cf:
> <cfset numberUsers=rereplacenocase(test,".*Number users:([^.]*)\..*",
> "\1")>
>
> And back to english:
>
.
> * = zero or more characters
> Number users: = literal string "Number users:"
> ([^.]*)
> () = grab whatever is in here , and stores it for later use
> [^.]* = zero or more characters that are not a period charcter
> \. = a period character
.
> * = zero or more characters
>
> Then we replace the whole string with what we found in the () using
> the \1 variable.
>
> And end up with just what was between the Number users: and the .
>
> Since there was a space after the :, we probably want to trim the
> numberUsers variable to drop that leading space.
>
> Does this help? make any sense at all?
>
> Jerry Johnson
>
>
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