Thanks, I will file that away for future use. We need a repository of commonly used regular expressions for people like me who are not very good at them!
Problem I'm having is, I want to replace the horrible bloated paragraphs with simple "<p>" and "</p>" later, after I have done some other transformations on the text (greeking out characters). I have worked around the problem (replacing each pipe character with a single "<p>" later gives an equivalent output in the browser, so that's enough for me) but I was wondering why it was skipping the first ">" and jumping straight to the second occurance. Just seems odd. Ta, K. "Don Vawter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <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. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com 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
