Thanks Wil and Adrian: Looks like there are many different hacks to suit different purposes. I have simply used a temporary escape character that I convert back with an extra line. It would indeed appear that CF regexp just falls short.
-----Original Message----- From: Wil Genovese [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 January 2009 17:53 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: RegExp - how to escape a zero Here is a hack work around using REFind to return a struct of arrays containing the match locations then doing string manipulation to replace the parts you want to replace. The downside is it will only work on the first occurrence of the match in the string. I can not find any other way to make the regex substituion work without inserting a comma. Which in the end may be acceptable in your case. Welcome to the world of CF flavored RegEx. <cfset testString = "house in clapham 200k with garden"> <cfset pattern = "(\d+)(k)"> <cfset sMatchPos = refindNoCase(pattern,testString,1,"True")> <cfset newstring = removeChars(testString,sMatchPos['pos'][3],aMatchPos['len'][3])> <cfset newstring = insert("000",newstring,sMatchPos['pos'][3]-1)> <cfoutput>#newstring#"</cfoutput> Wil Genovese ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:317891 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
