No intentions of undermining the Regex ninja, I just like (and need) the
regex practice.
<cfscript>
function getval(str){
str = rereplacenocase(str, "((FirstName: |LastName: |Age:
)+([\w]+[^[:space:]]))", "<b>[\1]</b>", "ALL");
return str;
}
</cfscript>
<cfset content = "Text text text text text text text
FirstName: Bob Age: 30 text text text
text text text text text LastName: Brown text text text text text
FirstName: Ted Age: 30 text text text">
<cfoutput>#getval(content)#</cfoutput>
The \2 would be the FirstName: or Age: ect... the \3 is the value
immediately following it and \1 is the whole sting (eg. Firstname: Bob).
Once they are found the rest should be easy and up to you. You could wrap
them in brackets to make it easier to pull out, modify it a little to
replace everything but \1. Guess it just depends on what you want in the end
-----Original Message-----
From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:26 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RegEx help
I'm trying to parse through some information in a text document where
there is information like this:
Text text text text text text text
FirstName: Bob Age: 30 text text text
text text text text text LastName: Brown text text
text text text
but this information is also within a bunch of other text. I was
attempting to do a find() for the "field" I was looking for and then do
other finds for the spaces and such, but it was getting pretty
confusing. I was thinking about writing a RegEx where I could plug in
the field name and it would find the field name followed by a colon and
a space and grab the next value until the next space is encountered. I
know that the field names will always be followed by a colon and a space
and that the value for that field will never have a space in it and the
end of the value will be a space. Does this make sense? If so, could
anyone get me started on the right track? I want to use reReplace to
get rid of everything except the value that I'm trying to get. Am I way
off? Is there an easier way?
John Burns
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