Here is an example:
I'm trying to remove the [Tag:Value] in the string below:
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<cfset text="This is some [Tag:Value] text">
<cfset regex="\[[^\]]*:[^\]]*\]">
<cfset newText=REReplaceNoCase(text,regex,'','ALL')>
<cfoutput>#newText#</cfoutput>
----
Running this, newtext=text.
However, if I change it to the following:
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<cfset text="This is some {Tag:Value} text">
<cfset regex="\{[^\}]*:[^\}]*\}">
<cfset newText=REReplaceNoCase(text,regex,'','ALL')>
<cfoutput>#newText#</cfoutput>
----
newtext now is "This is some text" as you'd expect it to be.
Thanks for any ideas,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 2:31 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: CF Regex problem
I haven't seen such a problem in the past. If you can post your RegEx we can look it
over and test it.
> Hi there,
> I'm having a problem in CF5 - if I try to use a regular expression to match a
>pattern that contains either the [ or ] characters, the find fails. I've already
>tried escaping each and using ascii character codes instead of the actual character,
>but I can't seem to make it work.
>
> If I change the text to use ( and ) or { and } and escape them properly, the regex
>find works as expected.
>
> Is this a known problem? Is there a workaround?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
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