inside of the brackets, the caret (^) means 'not'. so that's "anything that's NOT a-z (or A-Z since adrian gave you a replacenocase() function) or 0-9".
On Feb 4, 2008 8:56 AM, Mark Fuqua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to wrap my head around this and get it to work with the framework I'm > using...what does this say, in words... > > [^a-z0-9] > > does it say characters other than a-z, 0-9 or only characters a-z, o-9? > thanks > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 11:32 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Help with Regular expressions > > > <cfif REFindNoCase("[^a-z0-9]", yourString)> > Bad chars > </cfif> > > Adrian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Fuqua > Sent: 04 February 2008 16:30 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Help with Regular expressions > > > I need to check and see that a form field has no special characters or > spaces, only 0-9 and a-z. I'm guessing a regular expression could do that.? > > > > I need a regular expression to do a pattern matching test.if it has anything > other than a-z or 0-9 it should fail. > > > > Thanks > > > > Mark Fuqua > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:298070 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
