Cedric Villat wrote:
> I get an error though, as it complains about the ?. What are they for?
It's a (mistyped :) Perl extension that POSIX (and CF) don't support:
'?:' after the '(' stops the parenthesised section being treated as a
referenceable subexpression: it's just used for grouping.
It's *possible* that a CF-compatible solution could be engineered like
that, but without the '?'s you would have to work out what numbered
backreferences your prefix and suffix ended up being... Always assuming
that CF would assign the same numbers in all circumstances, which it
wouldn't.
[ponders]
You *might* get away with:
rereplace(text,"((.)\.([^0-9]))|(([^0-9])\.(.))", "\2\5 \3\6", "all");
if the subexpressions are numbered sanely and CF treats ones that aren't
assigned as empty strings (I haven't tried it). Even if that worked,
you'd still not get repeated periods treated correctly though.
There are a number of Perl RE extensions I *really* miss in CF - that's
one of them, but lazy matching is the big one (ie. take the first, as
opposed to the longest, match for an RE fragment). Lookahead and
lookbehind assertions are nice too, and would provide another potential
solution to your problem.
--
Pete Jordan
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