There's no reason why it couldn't -- those of us familiar with regular expressions answered the question with regex immediately for 2 reasons: 1) because the way the question is phrased brings regex immediately to mind for us and 2) because to a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. :)
> Question already answered, but I don't see why the > wouldn't be > possible with standard string functions. > Just looking at your single line of pseudo-code, it looks > like you want > to know if the referer is a cfm template in a certain > directory. > This bit of code would do that and would definitely > execute faster > than any regex... > <cfif left(cgi.http_referer, 30) EQ > "http://www.mysite.com/folder/"; > AND right(cgi.http_referer,4) EQ ".cfm"> > -- > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Friday, February 21, 2003, 4:25:29 PM, you wrote: > ML> Can a wildcard character, such as a "*" be used > successfully in the > ML> following statement, or is there a better way: > ML> <cfif CGI.HTTP_REFERER IS > "http://www.mysite.com/folder/*.cfm";> > ML> Thanks, Mark > ML> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~| > Archives: > http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 > Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index. > cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 > FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq > This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by > CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion > Hosting. > Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/uns > ubscribe.cfm?user=633.558.4 s. isaac dealey 954-776-0046 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
