I guess what I'm asking is this: are you actually escaping the "-" or are you including the backslash in your character set? I thought it was the latter, but after testing (yes, I finally got off my lazy ass and tested), you're correct. I couldn't remember whether the "\" behaved as an escape character within a character class. "\\" actually includes the "\" in the class.
Sorry for any confusion I may have created. On 5/11/06, Ben Nadel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob, > > I think you are correct. Putting a "-" in will work also (at least in the > Regex Coach program). However, "\-" also works, and it makes me feel more > comfortable to know that it is being escaped... But yes, both will work. > > ....................... > Ben Nadel > www.bennadel.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:44 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Regex Dash > > Just placing the dash at the beginning or end of the character class should > be sufficient. Otherwise the dash is considered a range delimiter. > > [-_A-Z] will handle dashes > [_a-z-] will also handle them > > I believe the backslash in a character class is, literally, a backslash in > Ben's example and does not affect the dash at all. I say that without doing > an actual test, however. :-) > > Or maybe I misunderstood what you were asking? > > On 5/11/06, Ben Nadel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, since you are not using "\-" in the [] matching group, it should > > be replaced out. If you want to keep the "-", add "\-" to the end of the > group: > > > > REReplaceNoCase(acc_number,"[^a-zA-Z[:space:]'0-9_&:,!()/\-]","","ALL" > > ) > > > > > > ....................... > > Ben Nadel > > www.bennadel.com > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:03 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Regex Dash > > > > Is there a remove dash(-) element in this statement? > > > > REReplaceNoCase(acc_number,"[^a-zA-Z[:space:]'0-9_&:,!()/]","","ALL") > > > > > > Lee Surma > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240229 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
