Ed
By changing the problem specification, slightly, to:
"Remove all all non (numeric or space) characters"
you get the simplified (faster and easier to understand) regexp:
<cfoutput>
#REReplace("+44 (0) 7799 657093", "[^0-9 ]", "", "ALL")#
</cfoutput>
The "[^0-9 ]" term means
[.....] the class of characters within the bracket
[^.....] the Negated class of characters within the bracket
[^0-9] the Negated class of characters in the range 0-9 (numeric)
[^0-9 ] the Negated class of characters in the range 0-9
(numeric) or space
thus: any character that is not digit or a space
HTH
Dich
At 10:47 AM +0000 1/5/01, Edward Chanter wrote:
>I'm really bad at these so maybe one of you has some ideas, basically I'm
>trying to create a reg ex to run against a list of cell phone numbers. I
>need to strip out + signs as well as brackets () and spaces " " the
>expression I'm using is:
>
><cfoutput>
>#REReplace("+44 (0) 7799 657093","+| |(|)","","ALL")#
></cfoutput>
>
>It only takes out the spaces when I run it :-(
>
>I bet the answer is really simple but I just can't figure it out...
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
> - =Ed
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