Technically, it doesn't since it doesn't match "at" by itself.
(^|) This is either the beginning of the string or a space, so the
beginning of a word. Probably unnecessary in this case
([^ ]*) This is zero or more non-spaces. In this example, dots and
letters.
([^c ]) This is one not-c or not-space.
at This is "at" :-)
What you should really be using is
rereplacenocase(str, "([^c]| )at", "\1AT", "all")
which capitalizes all the "at"s except in "cat".
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:29 PM
: To: CF-Talk
: Subject: Re: Regex help
:
:
: Hopefully Ben can tell me why this appears to work.
:
: <cfset str="gat...a chat cat hat prate at bird...">
:
: <cfset f=reReplaceNoCase(str,"(^| )([^ ]*)([^C ])at","\1\2\3AT","ALL")>
: <cfoutput>#f#</cfoutput>
:
:
: Jerry Johnson
:
:
: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/03 01:32PM >>>
: Regex help please. I've been busting my brain on this one.
:
: Here's what I'm trying to do, I could have string like:
: "...a cat hat prate at bird..."
: And I want to match all the "at" strings except the "at" string in the
: "cat".
:
: I tried a bunch of stuff like: "(^C)?at" but that didn't work. Is this
: possible?
:
: Thanks in advance, Doug
:
:
:
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