rereplace(str, "&.*?;", "", "all") Basically it says... replace anything that starts with & and everything it finds until the first occurrence of ;
..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Daron [PA] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Reg ex question I want to do a reg ex replace to remove all special text characters from an XML feed, I"ve been doing <cfset Desc = Replace(Desc, '&##160;', "", "ALL" )> but I keep finding more characters to replace so my list is getting longer, can I do some sort of regex find and replace any string that starts with an & and ends with a ; ? Any help would be appreciated. Daron Smith "PSEA E-mail Firewall" annotation on Tue Aug 28 2007 15:52:05 --------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: Only the individual sender is responsible for the content of the message, and the message does not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the Pennsylvania State Education Association. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287340 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
