Hi Jeremy, Here is how I do it in CF4em to replace things like [code]some code[/code]
Loop the string, replacing the blocks with a marker and storing the name in an array (the array position would match the marker) Then you can loop the array, convert the names to links and put them back into their original places with replace(str, '**marker1**', newLink, 'all') You can download cf4em (http://cf4em.com/downloads) and view /inc/parsebbml.cfm for some working code. Specifically, check out how code blocks, url blocks, and encryption blocks are removed, modified and put back into place. You could probably do both at once and skip the array in your case. A regex for your case would look like: <email>(.*?)</email> ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Prevost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 5:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Complex RegEx help request Hi all. I'm hoping someone can help out with this problem I've run into. I'm trying to make our home grown CMS a bit easier to use for our editors and easier to maintain. The issue at hand involves how we code email addresses into the content. I have an even that pops up a new contact window (CFwindow) and takes a Firstname and Lastname parameter. From there when the form is filled out the model looks up the email address based on the firstname/lastname combo and that all works great. However, I now want to tweak the code just a bit and will need to do some interesting find/replace work on the db side...which isn't a huge deal but I'd rather avoid doing it again every time I need to make changes. My thought was to use a pseudo tag such as <email>Firstname Lastname</email> which would be really easy for our editors to use and I'd replace that pseudo tag at display time with the actual link to the cfwindow. That works great in my mind, but I'm having a heck of a time creating a RegEx that will do what I want. In summary, anyone have any pointers as to which direction I should go to turn this: <email>Firstname Lastname</email> into this: <a href="javascript:ColdFusion.Window.create('staffContact#FirstName##Lastname# ','Contact%20#Firstname#%20#Lastname#','/index.cfm?event=page.comment&firstn ame=#firstname#&lastname=#lastname#',{center:true,height:400,width:600,modal :false,closable:true,draggable:true,resizable:true,center:true,initshow:true ,minheight:200,minwidth:200})">Email #Firstname# #Lastname#</a> Any thoughts would be much appreciated! Thanks, Jeremy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:305675 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
