Actually that should be <cfset temp = REReplaceNoCase(text, "^[^a-z1-9]", "", "ONE")> That will replace it only if it is the first character. The last one I sent will replace the first occurance of a non alpha-numeric anywhere in the string. --K -----Original Message----- From: Katrina Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: need help.. The particular regex (regular expression) provided will remove all non digits in the text field. If you want to replace anything that's not a digit or a letter at the begining of the field you need <cfset temp = REReplaceNoCase(text, "[^a-z1-9]", "", "ONE")> --K -----Original Message----- From: Vani Kolli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 8:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: need help.. Hi Russel, Does this replaces all special characters to null or only the specified ones ?? Thanks Vani -----Original Message----- From: Russel Madere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: need help.. You can use the REREPLACE() function in CF (RE Stands for Regular Expression). For example, to remove non-numerics from a string use: <cfset temp=ReReplace(Text, "[^[:digit:]]", "", "ALL")> You can use almost any regular expression comands in there. Russel ============================================================ Russel Madere, Jr. Senior Web Developer ICQ: 5446158 http://www.TurboSquid.com Some days you eat the bear; some days the bear eats you. ============================================================ > -----Original Message----- > From: Vani Kolli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 09:44 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: need help.. > > > Hi all, > > I have a form field and i want to check if there is any special character > typed in instead of alphabets and numbers. > Is there any tag in cf to find it. > > I remember doing it in Perl, but not sure of cf. > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks > > Vani > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
