Great point, Scott. I wasn't so much speaking to when RegEx's are best, but
just helping when one does decide to use them. Still, you make a good point
that one doesn't want to solve every fastening job with a hammer and nail
(even if that's where you have the most experience). Some call for a
screwdriver instead. Good to remember. :-)

/Charlie

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Scott Arbeitman
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 10:31 PM
To: cfaussie
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: regex resources (RE: [cfaussie] Re: RegEx brain
fart)


my  preference for a task like this is to use xpath and treat html as xml.
if it's not xhtml then i would use jtidy to clean it up so it is.

then it's trivial to select all text nodes that are children of html, your
code is more self-documenting and easier to mantain.

i've written a super simple tag:

<cf_tidy input="html" output="xhtmlVar" /> <cfset nodes = XmlFind(xhtmlVar,
"xpathExp") />



Charlie Arehart wrote:
> In the spirit of "teaching a man to fish", should anyone trip over 
> RegEx problems in the future, here are a few resources to help with 
> regular expressions.
>
>


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