Yeah, you can do that. Here's a simple example of it in action (using
the backreference to match quotes). It also uses a non-greedy modifier
in there to avoid doing an incorrect match on the apostrophe within
the double quotes.
cheers,
barneyb
<cfoutput>
<cfset baseString = "some 'text' with ""quotes an' some apostrophes"" in it" />
<h2>Quoted Strings within #baseString#</h2>
<ul>
<cfset start = 1 />
<cfloop condition="true">
<cfset result = REFind("(['""])(.*?)\1", baseString, start, true) />
<cfif result.pos[1] LT 1>
<cfbreak />
</cfif>
<cfset string = mid(baseString, result.pos[3], result.len[3]) />
<cfset quote = mid(baseString, result.pos[2], result.len[2]) />
<cfset start = result.pos[1] + result.len[1] />
<li>#string# (quoted with #quote#)</li>
</cfloop>
</ul>
</cfoutput>
On Nov 8, 2007 2:16 PM, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adam Howitt wrote a blog post asking for improvements to a regex that he
> wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/yvzxjk
>
> This is what I came up with:
> \(-?[\w,.]+/-?[\w,.]+\)
>
> But I'm wondering if it's possible to reuse the first portion of the
> expression, rather than writing the same exact thing twice in one string. So
> rather than this:
>
> \(-?[\w,.]+/-?[\w,.]+\)
>
> I could have this:
>
> \((-?[\w,.]+)/\1\)
>
> or something like that. I could swear that I've seen someone do this before.
> ____________________________________
>
> Andy Matthews
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