Ok, firstly a slight semantics rant: Strong and Bold are NOT synonymous - just because the default styling for the Strong tag is bold does not mean that they are interchangeable.
Now that's out of the way, onto the regex side of things - your pattern will match this: <b>[email protected]</strong> When matching opening/closing tags, you need to ensure that they both match, like so: <(tag1|tag2|tag3)>...</\1> The \1 is a backreference to the first group in the expression - often people use these in replacements, but they work in the main expression too! Another potential bug with the expression - what about this: <b style="color:red;">[email protected]</b> To match attributes, the simple way is to do: <(tag1|tag2|tag3)[^>]+>...</\1> For the actual email expression... well, true email regex is a nightmare, but a few obvious things: - [A-Z]{2,4} is not valid - what about .museum and others. - [email protected] and u...@localhost are both valid formats If this is matching, rather than validating, best to just use a simple catch-all style, along the lines of: [^@ ]+\.[^@ ]...@[^@ ]+? (I'm not entirely happy with that, but too tired to come up with better. Hopefully it gives the main idea - we don't need/want to be over-specific here.) So, keeping in mind that B != STRONG, but putting all the above together, we get: <(b|strong)[^>]+>[^@ ]+\.[^@ ]...@[^@ ]+?</\1> which can be plugged into a refind/rematch as required. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:318690 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
