http://www.houseoffusion.com/hof/functions.cfm
Keep this chart as a reference. It'll help many-a-time. If I ever get the
time/money to finish my functions book then that'll be made into a poster
(subdivided into sections rather than alphabetical).
> Wow, brilliant! I didn't know about REFind's 4th attribute.
>
> You've helped me before, and you helped me again.
>
> Thanks,
> Jamie
>
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:26:40 -0500, in cf-talk you wrote:
>
> >To get a backreference in a REFind() you have to set the 4th attribute of
> >the function to true. Your function would then look like
> >sReference=REFind('(before)(HeresTheStringIWant)(after)',
> >myTargetString,1,1);
> >which says find the pattern in myTargetString starting with position 1
and
> >returning backreferences.
> >If it succedes, you will have a structure called sReferencethat contains
2
> >keys (pos and len). Each key is an array which contains the position
(pos)
> >and length (len) of the data you want. Array element 1 is the entire
pattern
> >return, element 2 is the first back reference, etc.
> >To get the second back reference use this:
> >Mid(myTargetString, sReference.pos[3], sReference.len[3])
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is there a way to do this sort of thing?
> >>
> >> <cfscript>
> >> REFind("(before)(HeresTheStringIWant)(after)", myTargetString);
> >> variables.foundstring = \2;
> >> </cfscript>
> >>
> >> If not, what's the usual way to go about it? Seems like it could get
> >> pretty ugly if there isn't a similar way.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jamie
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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