--Ben
Mike Kelp wrote:
> Here you go...So you know, in regex:
> x?!y matches x only if it is not followed by y
> x?=y matches x only if it is followed by y
> These are referred to as lookahead expressions
>
> The attached file has that function I had mentioned.
>
> Hope this helps you,
> Mike
>
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:08:37 -0500, Mike Kelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I wrote a cfc to do things like this a while back...I'll see if I can
>>send it to you shortly.
>>I wrote it for adding smiley face code and securing HTML in a forum so
>>it takes a list of accepted tags and removes the rest.
>>
>>I know this doesn't help you a lot now, but if I can find a good
>>snippet of the code for you, I will get it to you.
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Cassidy Symons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:51:52 -0700
>>Subject: RegEx - is it possible to strip all HTML except certain tags?
>>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>I've been testing this out and can't find a way to strip all HTML except
>> certain tags...is there any sort of 'not' modifier in RegEx in CF5, so I
>> could do something like:
>>
>> <cfset mytext =
>> '#REReplaceNoCase(mytext,"</?(NOT{b,i,strong,p,etc...}[^>]*>","","all")#'>
>>
>> Which would leave in tags that aren't really harmful. Obviously if need
>> be I can just replace those tags with some sort of code (that hopefully
>> doesn't happen to appear elsewhere in the text), run the RegEx function
>> to strip all other HTML, then switch the codes back to HTML, but that
>> seems like a rather inelegant way of going about it, not to mention slow
>> if this is being done to several text fields on the same page.
>>
>> Can ColdFusion's RegEx functions accomplish this, or am I going to have
>> to figure out a workaround?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Cassidy
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