> PS One of these days, I'm going to write a simple regex page that will > give examples and that you can test stuff out on - hey... > I've got half > an hour!
you've been saying that for ages! :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 03 December 2002 13:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] REreplace > > > > that replaces all punctuation from the string with nothing... > > well that's if the "punct" bit is supposed to read > > [[:punct:]] - it looks like you have an extra space in there... > > Correct! > > > > my regex is not so good.... what is this one doing : > > > > > > #REreplace(request.myvar,"([[:punct:] ])","","all")# > > What this regex says is: > > Find me all occurrences of either punctuation OR a space and > remove them > all. This would leave you with a string with alpha numeric characters > and line breaks/tabs etc. > > Anything in square brackets is a grouping of things to search > for, so if > I put: > > [abc] > > It would search for an occurrence of either a or b or c (note case). > > HTH > > Paul > > PS One of these days, I'm going to write a simple regex page that will > give examples and that you can test stuff out on - hey... > I've got half > an hour! > > > > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
