Well - the period ("dot") means "any character" and asterisk means "zero or
more".Is that what you're looking for? To do what you want to do however you should also look into what are called "greedy" settings. For example consider the following string: <p>Stuff</p><p>More Stuff</p> Normally a Regex like "<[pP]>.*</[pP]>" (this may not be right - I'm working from memory here and my memory has never been what I say it used to be) will grab the entire string. If you want to only grab the first paragraph you need to set the regex to be "not greedy". It escapes me how to do that in CFMX (which uses Java RegExes), but unfortunately this just couldn't be done in CF before MX. Then things get more complicated, but not amazingly so. Hope this leads you in the right direction. Jim Davis > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:01 PM > To: RegEx > Subject: Any character, any character at all. > > What is the proper way to say I will accept any kind of character, letter, > digit, white space, special or anything else? I'm trying to create this > basic idea of a regex. > (aSpecificString)(anyPosibleCharacter)(aSecondSpecificString) > > Does that make sense, I guess a fairly real world example would be to > search for a set of tags, <P> lets say that could have anything between > them. > (<p>)(What goes here?)(</p>) > > -------------- > Ian Skinner > Web Programmer > BloodSource > <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\iskinner\Application%20Data\Microso > ft\Signatures\www.BloodSource.org> www.BloodSource.org > <http://www.BloodSource.orgSacramento> > Sacramento, CA > > "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" > - Cynthia Dunning > > > Confidentiality Notice: This message including any > attachments is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender and > delete any copies of this message. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:805 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/21 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:21 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.21 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
