I, for one, am having trouble understanding what you're trying to accomplish. I could probably help you if I understood the purpose/goal of your regular expression.
Assuming that you have this content loaded into a variable, you're not reading a line at a time from a file, and you're wanting to find new lines and leading white-space I'd search like this (also matches white-space at the beginning and end of the file and at the end of a line): ((^|\s*[\r\n]+)\s|\s+$) Disclaimer: I haven't tested the regex, but it should work as advertised. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say I've got a chunk of source code like so: > > > <form name="frmLogin" action="index.cfm?action=tomlinson.setTestForm" > method="post"> > <table width="45%" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" > class="subHeader"> > <tr valign="middle" bgcolor="ffffff"> > <td width="20%" align="right">Username</td> > <td width="20%" align="left"><input class="req" type="text" name="usrID" > size="20" value="#variables.frmData.usrID#" /></td> > </tr> > > etc... > > So it can have almost any kind of character in it. > > Now, let's say I want to check the beginning for whatever, in this case, I > want a match if it has a newline or carriage return at the beginning. > > (?i)^[\r\s]+[.\r\s\S]* > > With this regex i'm trying to say, look for the newline/tab/c.return at the > start of the text, and allow ANYthing afterwards. I don't care what comes > after, allow it. > > My problem is understanding the \S (non whitespace) in the 2nd []. If I > remove it, I don't have a match. if I include it,I DO have a match. What is > in that chunk of text that isn't being matched, that .\r\s won't match. > > What's the best way to say look, I don't care what comes AFTER this > specific piece of the regex that matches. Allow EVERYthing. > > Make sense? > > Thanks, > Will > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309239 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
