Now, if you had gone to Sydney CFUG, you would have done this:
find: jack([A-Z]) replace: steve\1
(To paraphrase: find jack followed by a capital letter, and replace with steve and the same capital letter.)
Well you may have done this, although the eight or so who braved the eve of the coldest, wettest day this year to attend are on the list and didn't respond, which probably means they were so stuffed with pizza and beer for 30 that they couldn't concentrate.
Here's the <a> tags RE:
<a[^>]*>([^<]*)</a>
Thats "<a" followed by 0 or more non-">" characters, followed by ">", followed by 0 or more non-"<" characters we want to remember (the brackets) followed by "</a>". Only works if there aren't any tags inside the <a>s.
Robin http://www.rocketboots.com.au
Tim Rox wrote:
Hi there,
Was just using cfstudio to run a global find and replace on some code.
I realised that i often find myself wondering if i can use regular expressions in the following way:
I want to find all instances of the word "jack" that are instantly followed by an uppercase letter. eg. jackMAGGS or jackJILL.
BUT here the perplexing bit: i don't actually want to return anything but the word "jack" in the matches. (this is cos i actually want to replace "jack" with "steve" in these cases - ie so it becomes steveMAGGS or steveJILL).
The dilemma would apply if say, i wanted to find all the content that was between <a> tags in my code, but i didn't want to return the <a></a> tags as a part of the matches.
I'm sure there's an easy answer. Perhaps i should have gone to the sydney CFUG last week? humble me.
Tim.
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