Like this?
\[[[:alnum:]]*:[[:alnum:]]*\]
a bracket followed by any number of letters or numbers followed by a colon followed by
any number of letters or numbers followed by a close bracket.
or this?
\[[^]]*\]
A open bracket followed by any number of characters that are not a close bracket
followed by a close bracket
Both of them test out correctly with your example below
> Here is an example:
>
> I'm trying to remove the [Tag:Value] in the string below:
>
> ----
> <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:
>
> ----
> <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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