Hi Philip,
> Has anyone made a generic routine to retrieve designated URLs & the > beginning strings to search for and save N characters after that? Here's an example of how you would do something like this with a custom tag. This custom tag would take 3 required attributes, "URL", "Find", and "StringLen"... By the way, it's something I just threw together quickly, so no guarantees that it is error-free.. And it would need lots of error-checking in place before being ready for prime time.. But it should give you an idea of the principles involved. <!--- Get the target page ---> <cfhttp url="#Attributes.URL#" resolveurl="no"></cfhttp> <!--- Use regular expression to exclude any HTML Markup ---> <cfset GrabbedPage = REReplaceNoCase(cfhttp.filecontent, "<[^>]*>", "", "ALL"))> <!--- Find text passed in via custom tag attribute "find" ---> <cfset StartPosition = FindNoCase(Attributes.Find, GrabbedPage)> <!--- Return "Stringlen" number of characters starting with "find" position ---> <cfset GrabbedPage = Mid(GrabbedPage, StartPosition, val(Attributes.StringLen))> <!--- Returned parsed text to the calling page ---> <cfset ThisTag.GeneratedContent = GrabbedPage> Hope it gets you headed in the right direction. Take care, Seth "The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy." -Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950) ----------------------------------- Seth Bienek Digitaris Technologies, Inc. tel (972) 690-4131, ext. 103 fax (972) 690-0617 icq 7673959 ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email server is running an evaluation copy of the MailShield anti- spam software. Please contact your email administrator if you have any questions about this message. MailShield product info: www.mailshield.com ----------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe / unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org
