Well, what I really want to do is takethe page source and whatever the page might have in it and strip everyting but what is between the <a></a> tags in the page
Does this help? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 6:31 AM Subject: Re: regex help > Doug, > > Do you want to strip out all HTML, or just "a" tags? What about words that appear otside of the link? > > For example: > > another <a href=this,that and the other>word</a> problem > > Should that become: > another word problem > > or: > word > > If you want to strip out all html, and leave words outside the tag, use stripHTML(): > http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=12 > > If you want to strip just "a" tags and leave words outside the tag, use this: > REReplaceNoCase(str,"</?a[^>]*>","","ALL") > > If you want to get only the text between the "a" tags, use this: > <cfscript> > function anchorText(string) { > var result = ""; > var AnchorTag = ReFindNoCase("<a[^>]*>[^(</a>)]*</a>",string,1,true); > var tag = ""; > if ( AnchorTag.pos[1] AND AnchorTag.len[1] ) { > tag = Mid(string,AnchorTag.pos[1],AnchorTag.len[1]); > result = ReReplaceNoCase(tag, "</?a[^>]*>", "", "ALL"); > } > return result; > } > </cfscript> > > If your need is otherwise, let me know. > > Steve Bryant > 918-449-9440 > Bryant Web Consulting LLC > http://www.BryantWebConsulting.com/ > http://steve.coldfusionjournal.com/ > > >Was wondering how I would strip out everything between > > > ><a href=this,that and the other>word</a> and just leave the word? > > > > > >Any ideas > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251232 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
