I'm not the cute one at the end of the bar, but..
How about you make it into a corba object (or com if you really have to)
instead of a cfx?
I've heard there can be memory problems on high volume cfx's
Jared.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Osborne (Mojo) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:13 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: [Kinda OT?] Embedding the PCRE Engine in a CFX
>
>
> (This may be OT, as I'm not sure what the list's policy is on
> this kind of
> thing, but I'm just tryin' to help, so I'll give it a shot.)
>
> In light of the vast number of questions we get on the list about the
> brokenness of the regular expression engine in CF, I've
> created a CFX tag
> that uses the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression)
> engine[1] to do
> regex Find()s. I don't have the Replace() functionality
> coded yet, as I
> want to get some feedback on the utility of such a beast.
> (Specifically,
> whether or not a Replace() functionality would be worth the
> effort.) No
> more shelling out to Perl to do your regex work. Cool, huh?
>
> I've done some limited testing already myself and gotten it
> to a point where
> it seems to work (and is frelling fast, as near as I can
> tell), but I'd like
> to make it available to the developer community for alpha
> testing. If you'd
> like to test it, just drop me a quick email (off-list,
> please!) and I'll
> send you the ZIP file.
>
> There is but one catch: there is, of course, absolutely no
> documentation.
> But, I'll include a sample file to get anyone started.
>
> Thanks,
> -Rick
>
> (P.S. - For my next trick, I'm thinking of just going whole-hog and
> embedding a Perl interpreter into a CFX tag. Just for grins.
> Can you say
> Perl and CF living side-by-side in real time? Coolio.)
>
> [1] If you don't know what the PCRE is, just think of it like
> this: The
> whole point of the PCRE is to completely emulate/mirror
> Perl's regex engine.
> In other words, anything you can do in Perl, you can do in
> the PCRE. For
> more info see:
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
>
> ---
> To eliminate some questions that I know will be asked ...
>
> Q: Why don't [I] just make a web page and make it available
> for download?
> A; It is *very* alpha quality. It is stable, but has not undergone
> satisfactory testing. I don't want people emailing me a year from now
> because they found a copy of it archived somewhere and can't
> get it to work.
> That, and I want to be able to harass the alpha testers and
> make them send
> me feedback.
>
> Q: When will it be done?
> A: As soon as a few alpha testers decide that it is worthy of public
> consumption. The source will be released with the binary ASAP. At a
> minimum, I'll make it available on my site and the Allaire
> Tag Gallery (or
> DevEx or whatever they are calling it now). (Probably a few
> of the other
> galleries, as well.)
>
> Q: Will [I] sell [your] email address to evil people?
> A: You're kidding, right? Now way, no how.
>
> Q: Will this be part of a commercial product?
> A: See the answer to the previous question. Nope. The PCRE has been
> written under the GPL. Therefore, this code is under the GPL. It is
> completely free.
>
> Q: Will [you] have to sign an NDA or something stupid like
> that to be a
> tester?
> A: Nope. Nothing of the sort.
>
> Think of it like this: I'm the lonely coder geek and you're
> the cute one at
> the end of the bar. By simply coming over to me and showing
> an interest
> you'll have access to everything. All you have to do is say
> Hello and the
> drinks are on me.
>
> Getting out of fantasyland, I just want to know who you are
> so that I can
> say really mean things about you if I get emails a year from now from
> someone who can't figure out how to make the alpha work.
>
> END TRANS
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