Hmmm, although it works that code is not quite correct - there's a few issues with it.
>> If you don?t mind characters like ñ, then just use \w instead of A-Za-z0-9_ This is *incorrect* - in ColdFusion regex, \w does NOT include accented characters. There are other regex engines where it does, but the Apache ORO used by CF doesn't. (Unless that's changed with CF9 anyhow, but I suspect not..) There are several unnecessary escapes since ".?()" do not need escaping inside classes. (However, if '-' wants to be included (it's not currently) then it should be escaped as '\-' so it's not treated as a range.) By including \s you're not just saying space, you're *also* including \r and \n and \t and \v. So either just use a literal space (to avoid tabs) or to allow tabs don't specify the \r and \n since they're just adding noise. [^\w\r \n!.?''"()&,;:] or [^\w\s!.?''"()&,;:] Outside of the character class, the outer group is redundant - regex already captures the match to \0 so just do: rereplace( str , '[^\w\r \n!.?''"()&,;:]' , '<span class="highlight">\0</span>' , 'all' ) And finally, one more optimisation - to avoid a long series of HTML spans, just add a + to collect multiple characters together: rereplace( str , '[^\w\r \n!.?''"()&,;:]+' , '<span class="highlight">\0</span>' , 'all' ) Hope this helps. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337854 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
