Cool, I wasn't aware of the \A \Z - I've always used ^ $ Like this: <cfset var titleRegEx = "^(Dr|Prof|Mr|Mrs|Ms|Miss)(\.)?$" />
Edward A Savage Jr - "Sonny" Senior Software Engineer Creditdiscovery, LLC "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean." ~ GK Chesterton On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Richard White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Matt, i didn't think to use the \A and \Z as this was where i was > getting lost, i couldn't understand how to constrain it just to those > options, but your example works perfectly and i have learned something new > :) > > thanks again > > richard > > >\b is an escape sequence that, as taken from the docs: > > > >"Specifies a boundary defined by a transition from an alphanumeric > character > >to a nonalphanumeric character, or from a nonalphanumeric character to an > >alphanumeric character." > > > >Since you're passing in "Dr|", the pipe character matches, as it is a > >transition from an alphanumeric character to a non-alphanumeric character. > > > >Assuming that you're wanting the title to be the only thing in the field, > >with the exception of a possible period at the end, try something like > this: > > > ><cfset var titleRegEx = "\A(Dr|Prof|Mr|Mrs|Ms|Miss)(\.)?\Z" /> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313955 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
