<cfset cleanme = rereplace(mystring,"<[^>]*>","","all")> this will strip all tags
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kay Smoljak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:35 AM Subject: RE help needed: stripping tags from a string > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a regular expression working to replace some > particularly horrible markup (yes it's Microsoft-generated) with > something manageable. I'm trying to turn this string: > > <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </P> > <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">Blah Blah Blah</P> > > Into this: > > | | | Blah Blah Blah | > > So far I have this: > > <cfset cleanme = REREplaceNoCase(mystring,"[<][[:print:]]*[>]"," | > ","ALL")> > > to try and turn all paragraph tags into pipe characters flanked by > spaces. But, instead of it matching any printable character from the > first < to the first >, which is what I thought it should do, it's > ignoring the first > and the second < and skipping to the second >. So > the first two paragraph tags, instead of being converted to two pipes, > are being converted to one. Argh! > > If anyone can point out where I'm going wrong, I'd really appreciate it. > > K. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
