Perhaps your hitting this: >From the CFDOCS: In CFML regular expression functions, large input strings (greater than approximately 20,000 characters) cause a debug assertion failure and a regular expression error occurs. To avoid this, break your input into smaller chunks, as the following example shows. Here the variable input has a size greater than 50000.
======================================================================= Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: James Sleeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: ReReplace(NoCase) maximum length > > > Hi All, > anybody know if there is a maximum length on the string > passed to > ReReplace(NoCase) ? Reason I ask is that I am running the following > > ReReplaceNoCase(trim(text), "^<HTML>(.*)</HTML>$", "\1"); > > and when the string in text is above a certain length (don't know how > long exactly) the code fails with an Invalid regular > expression message. > I cut the offending text in half (it's comign from a database field > (the data in the field is fine, all there, all returned in query)) > and each half goes through just fine, but put em togethor and I get > the error. Hopefully the "designers" won't mind me splitting thier > page into two (stupidly long anyway) :-) > > --- > James Sleeman > > ______________________________________________________________________ Why Share? Dedicated Win 2000 Server � PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionc 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
