;) indeed - my linguistic point was pretty lame, regretted it as soon as I posted it. With more useful names and a ditching of the x = y; return x; sillyness, you're right, it could still be useful in more complicated code:
<cfscript> var stringInTransit = arguments.stringToChange; var cleanString = ""; stringInTransit = rereplace(stringInTransit,'[_| ]','-','all'); stringInTransit = rereplacenocase(stringInTransit,'[^a-z|A-Z|0-9|-]','','all'); cleanString = rereplace(stringInTransit,'[-]+','-','all'); return cleanString; </cfscript> Dominic -- Blog it up: http://fusion.dominicwatson.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:301376 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
