Regex *is* the key then. Many thanks. -Nate
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:48 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: matching a whole word Yes, indeed. You want something like this: keyword = "star"; myString = "The dog sniffed at the starfish and growled"; regEx = "\b" & keyword & "\b"; if (reFindNoCase(regEx, myString)) { writeOutput("found it"); } else { writeOutput("did not find it"); } On 8/17/2011 5:20 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote: > If I want to scan a string to match only a whole word should I be > looking at regular expressions? I want to scan a string like > > "The dog sniffed at the starfish and growled" > > And if I scan for "star" not match "starfish". > > Are regular expressions the most effective way to do that? > > Thank you. > > -Nate > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346821 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
