ThatÂ’s not anal OR picky. It won't work without it. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: REGEX help
Okay, this is going to get pretty anal, so children should avert their eyes... In order to use the backreference Nathan is describing, you'd need to wrap the keyword in parentheses: REReplaceNoCase(stringVar, "\b(architect)\b", "<html to highlight>\1</ html to highlight>", "ALL") :-D Told you that was going to be picky, but Nathan's right. You need all that other stuff to do anything useful. I was lazier than I should have been in my initial response. Rob Wilkerson On Oct 23, 2006, at 8:21 PM, Nathan Strutz wrote: > If you're trying to highlight the word architect, using rob's > regex, you > would do something like this: > > reReplaceNoCase(stringVar, "\barchitect\b", "<html to highlight>\1</ > html to > highlight", "ALL") > > Wrap it in #'s or set it to a variable. the \1 is a back reference > to your > regex search, so in this case you could hard-code it to the word > architect. > > -nathan strutz > http://www.dopefly.com/ > > ps, firefox 2.0 spell checker is rad. > > > > On 10/23/06, Rob Wilkerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Try "\barchitect\b". Of course, replace "architect" with the keyword >> that was entered. the "\b" marks word boundaries. >> >> Rob Wilkerson >> >> >> >> On Oct 23, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Jake Churchill wrote: >> >>> I'm not really good with regexes so I need some help here. I have a >>> simple search page which searches a table containing a keyword and >>> description. I want to implement highlighting which was simple. >>> However, I need to enhance it slightly. >>> >>> For example, if the user searches for "architect" results are also >>> returned for "architectural" and "architecture". This doesn't >>> need to >>> change. However, I do a simple ReplaceNoCase() to highlight the >>> string. So, only "architect" is highlighted when the whole word is >>> actually "architectural" or "architecture." >>> >>> What I need is some kind of UDF or REGEX which will allow me to only >>> highlight "architect" if that is the entire word but if >>> "architect" is >>> really part of a larger word it would not get highlighted. >>> >>> I found a highlight UDF on cflib.org but am not especially good with >>> regexes so I'm not sure what sequence to be looking for. Also, I >>> would >>> like to search for more than just a space before and after the >>> word. So >>> if the word is hyphenated (i.e. "architectural-style" it would still >>> highlight "architecture". >>> >>> Jake >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:257829 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
