Here's one approach: <!--- Comments with fields ---> <cfset regexComment = "<!---(.*?)--->"> <cfset regexCommentFields = "^(.*?):(.*)$"> <cfset fileContent = "blah blah<!--- Sample Comment --->ya ya <!--- Widget Name: My Widget Widget URL: http://siriusinnovations.com Description: This is the description Version: 2.0 Author: Philip Hayes Author URL: http://siriusinnovations.com ---> <!--- Sample Comment 2 --->"> <cfset contentPosition = 1> <dl> <cfloop condition="contentPosition GT 0"> <cfset commentSubs = reFind(regexComment, fileContent, contentPosition, true)> <cfset contentPosition = commentSubs.pos[1] + commentSubs.len[1]> <cfif arrayLen(commentSubs.pos) EQ 2> <cfset commentContent = mid(fileContent, commentSubs.pos[2], commentSubs.len[2])> <cfloop list="#commentContent#" delimiters="#chr(13)##chr(10)#" index="commentLine"> <cfif reFind(regexCommentFields, commentLine) GT 0> <cfoutput><dt>#trim(reReplace(commentLine, regexCommentFields, "\1"))#</dt><dd>#trim(reReplace(commentLine, regexCommentFields, "\2"))#</dd></cfoutput> </cfif> </cfloop> </cfif> </cfloop> </dl>
On Jan 23, 2008 10:52 AM, Philip Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some help with an area of ColdFusion which I would call my > Achilles Heal of ColdFusion Programming. I cannot get my mind around > Regular Expressions, but know its the solution to many of my > problems. For example > > I have the following CF Comment on a cfm page: > > <!--- > Widget Name: My Widget > Widget URL: http://siriusinnovations.com > Description: This is the description > Version: 2.0 > Author: Philip Hayes > Author URL: http://siriusinnovations.com > ---> > > I want to perform a read on the CFM file using CFFILE. I then want > to use a find/replace with regular expressions to find the values for: > > Widget Name > Widget URL > Description > Version > Author > Author URL > > Is there anybody out there who can help me do this? I know is > probably pretty easy but i just don't get regular expressions. > > Thanks. > > Phil > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297217 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
