Doug, >Was wondering how I would strip out everything between > ><a href=this,that and the other>word</a> and just leave the word?
Rahul Narula, who works for Adobe on the web team, just posted this recently: http://rahulnarula.blogspot.com/2006/08/regex-treat.html (Watch out for line wrapping in this post, you may want to snag the code for the blog post.) <cfscript> text ="<!-- YOUR HTML TEXT HERE--->"; //can come from any source like file read, cfhttp or any other tag="a"; //the tag you want to manipulate //You wont require to change below tagArray=arrayNew(1); fulltagArray=arrayNew(1); RegEx ="<\s?#tag#\b[^>]*>(.*?)</\s?#tag#\s?>"; result =ReFindNoCase(RegEx,text,0,true); while (result.pos[1] gt 0) { arrayAppend(fulltagArray,mid(text,result.pos[1],result.len[1])); arrayAppend(tagArray,mid(text,result.pos[2],result.len[2])); result =ReFindNoCase(RegEx,text,result.pos[1]+result.len[1],true); } tagStripped =reReplace(text,RegEx,"\1","All"); </cfscript> <cfdump var="#fulltagArray#" label="Full tag"> <cfdump var="#tagArray#" label="Text within the tag"> <cfoutput> <p>Orginal text</p> #text# <p>Tag stripped version </p> #tagStripped# </cfoutput> This code not only does what you want, but it does several other things. -Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:251246 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
