> I thought you cannot just place a . or \ as they are special > characters.
The . is not special when used within a character class (the square brackets). i.e. You do *not* need to escape [.] - that will match dot, not 'any character'. > I also need to find a double . not a single. A character class matches a single character, so if you need it doubled, you don't want a character class for that bit (and thus it will need to be escaped). So what you want is this - the parentheses are only required if part of a larger expression: (\.\.|[#\\/&%]) Obviously with CF, you often need to escape the hash, so you want: (\.\.|[##\\/&%]) In some regex flavours, the / would also need to be escaped, so might have: (\.\.|[#\\\/&%]) Hope that makes sense? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:315636 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
