Thanks David, this is what I ended up doing yesterday... Had a bit of trouble with the logic though... Was hoping there would be a more straightforward solution...
Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: David Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:23 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Is Inside Tag > > I would.... > 1. find the position of the next occurence of "<a " using findnocase() > with a start pos of the pos you're interested in. > 2. find the pos of the next occurence of "</a>" using findnocase() > with same start pos as above. > > If #2 LT #1, your start pos is in a link. No regex required. > Furthermore, I couldn't think of a regex that would be foolproof > anyway. > > CF and regex is not great at NOT finding words. > > On 12/7/06, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to write a regex and can't seem to figure it out. Is there > an > > easy way to tell if a given position in a string is inside a certain > tag? > > For example, I want to know if a word at position x in my string is > inside > > an A tag. I want a regular expression that goes something like this: > > > > > > > > ReFindNoCase("[^<A]+?</A>",string,position) > > > > > > > > If there is a match, then I know that there was a closing </A> before an > > opening one. I just can't seem to figure out the syntax. > > > > > > > > Russ > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:263294 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
