Yep, just didn't want to give away the answer without being asked.
(Sorry it took so long, got pulled away into a meeting)
First assumption: All the numbers are in the form [numbers].
Second assumption: Nothing else is in the form [numbers].
You want something along these lines.
<cfset newContent=rereplace("\[(\d*)\]",Content,"<a
href=""here.cfm?v=\1"">view</a>","ALL")>
It says find any numeric digits between square brackets, and replace them with the
view link.
Jerry Johnson
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/06/02 02:33PM >>>
Jerry,
I'm really stumped as to where to start - could you give me a starter or
clue?
Thanks
Will
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: cf-talk
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Looping to find [brackets]
> Yes, that is exactly the place to use rereplace.
>
> remember that square brackets are special chars in regex, so you need to
escape them.
>
> Jerry Johnson
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/06/02 12:30PM >>>
> Hi,
>
> I need to loop through a large amount of text - which might contain HTML -
> to find numbers surrounded by square brackets (i.e. [n]).
>
> Once found, I need to alter it into something like this:
>
> <a href="here.cfm?v=n">view</a>
>
> (where "n" is a number). There will be about 30 square-bracketed numbers
> like this. Does anyone have any advice how to tackle this - is this is a
> time for rereplace?
>
> Cheers
>
> Will
>
>
>
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