[^a-z\.,] is not a string of characters. It's a class, which will match exactly one character in that class.
[^a-z\.,]+ is a string of characters. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce-cfaussie- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taco Fleur > Sent: Monday, 1 December 2003 10:39 a.m. > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: [OT] JS RegEx > > Hi Graham, > > not sure if your regex would work, but I do know it would not work for me, > as the regex string is not just one character but a long string of > characters like [^a-z\.,] etc. so I would not be able to specify the > backreference. > example > > obj.value = obj.value.replace("[^a-z\.,'\-\s]", ""); > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 28 November 2003 11:42 PM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: [OT] JS RegEx > > > Hi Taco, I'm a newbie at regular expressions, but looking at my O'Reilly > book they give the example to remove any doubled words: > <cfset NoDupes = ReReplaceNoCase("I would like to go to to the park","([A- > Z]+)[ ]+\1","\1","\1","ALL"> > > >From that could the extrapolation for your situation be along the lines: > "([']+)[]+\1","\1","\1","ALL" > > Regards > Graham Cook > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-cfaussie- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia > http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-cfaussie- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia > http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
