The method I've described is the only only way I know to process a regex match with a function before replacing the string. Perl and maybe php support that kind of functionality, but in most languages it takes a work-around.
Blair On 8/23/07, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Blair > > Not really what i was looking for because then i would have to escape and > other hashes in the string because if i didnt the valuate would error > > for example if the string was > > my name is <span style="color:#c0c0c0">steve</span> and my email address > is [EMAIL PROTECTED] so if you want to email me go for it > > then as soon as i evaluated the string it would error because of the un > escaped # in the font color, which would mean i would need to escape all the > hashes rendering the cfoutput # useless. > > I need to be able to inject the new value directly into the REreplace so i > am only updating what i need > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Blair McKenzie > *Sent:* Thursday, 23 August 2007 12:34 PM > *To:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [cfaussie] Re: Evaluating regular expression back references > > Ooooh. I think there was a thread on this a while back - if you search the > list for rereplace and eval it should come up. > > The gist is that instead of running the function (mask in your case) > directly in the rereplace, you replace the found string with an embedded > function, so the replacement string would be something like > "##mask('[EMAIL PROTECTED]')##" > and the result would be something like > "my name is steve and my email address is #mask('[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>')# > so if you want to email me go for it" > Then you eval the result of the rereplace. There might be a DE in there > somewhere too. I forget. > > Blair > > On 8/23/07, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > yeah but i need to only replace the email address our of a string so > > the string would be fore example > > > > "my name is steve and my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] so if you > > want to email me go for it" > > > > I need to be able to extract the email address which is what the regular > > expression does. The email address could be anything so i want to be able > > to pass the back references from the regular expression into another > > function and be able to pass that back into the REReplace so i dont have to > > loop over the string looking for email addresses. Keep in mind that the > > string would be an entire HTML page. > > > > Make sense? > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > > Behalf Of *Blair McKenzie > > *Sent:* Thursday, 23 August 2007 12:14 PM > > *To:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com > > *Subject:* [cfaussie] Re: Evaluating regular expression back references > > > > You may be over thinking the problem. Replace already takes the whole > > string. For that matter REReplace also takes the whole string and only > > replaces the match - you could use > > rereplace('[EMAIL PROTECTED]@als,'@','&123','ALL') > > and it would still return the entire string. > > > > And I'm pretty sure replacelist replaces every occurrance. You just have > > to watch out for recursive replacements. > > > > Blair > > > > > > On 8/23/07, Steve Onnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I need to pass the whole string into the function as i want to > > > replace every character in the email address with its&# value so i need to > > > be able to evaluate the back references to the values of the back > > > references > > > are passed into the function > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > *From:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > *On Behalf Of *Blair McKenzie > > > *Sent:* Thursday, 23 August 2007 10:10 AM > > > *To:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com > > > *Subject:* [cfaussie] Re: Evaluating regular expression back > > > references > > > > > > If you're only replacing symbols you don't really need regex. > > > For most symbols, just replace them with their &## counterpart: > > > replacelist(str, "@,%", "&#asc('@')#,&#asc('%')#") > > > > > > If you need to replace &s you need to make sure to do so before any > > > other symbols. > > > > > > Blair > > > > > > On 8/22/07, Steve Onnis < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What I am trying to do is replace all values in a string with the &# > > > > value > > > > of the character. This is what I have so far... > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > <cfsavecontent variable="str"> > > > > this is my email address <a > > > > href="mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> [EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> > > > > </cfsavecontent> > > > > <cfset reg = "([[:alnum:]|\.]*)@([[:alnum:]|\.]*)" /> > > > > <cfscript> > > > > function mask() { > > > > var str = arguments[1]; > > > > var i = 1; > > > > var length = LEN(str); > > > > var returnStr = ""; > > > > for (i=1; i LTE length; i=i+1) { > > > > returnStr = returnStr & "&###ASC(MID(str, i, > > > > 1))#"; > > > > } > > > > return returnStr; > > > > } > > > > </cfscript> > > > > <cfoutput> > > > > #REReplaceNoCase(str, reg, mask("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"), "ALL")# > > > > </cfoutput> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > If I just return the "str" value it returns the email address but is > > > > I loop > > > > over the string I get "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" returned as the string. > > > > > > > > Is there a way around this? > > > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. 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