Re: Wierd regex problem (isn't it always)

Thanks guys for all your help its been a good regex learning experience as usual for me :) @Ben yours is the one i've gone with thank for the comments and explanation Andy J On Nov 7, 2007 8:24 PM, Ben Doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A handful of comments: Backreferencing a single, static

Wierd regex problem (isn't it always)

Hi I'm trying to do a look through as string to find usernames and add a tags around them ala Twitter. The regex I think is fine but when I use reReplace 's back reference I'm not getting the result I thought I would of. Heres the code. Can anyone see anything obvious? Cheers, Andy !---

Re: Wierd regex problem (isn't it always)

A handful of comments: Backreferencing a single, static character is silly. It just wastes memory and processor time. You're throwing it away, anyway. {1} is useless. It means one of. Which would just be the thing by itself. Second, {1,} is more commonly written +. Also, you are saying

RE: Wierd regex problem (isn't it always)

http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Andy Jarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Wierd regex problem (isn't it always) Hi I'm trying to do a look through as string to find usernames and add a tags around them ala

Re: Wierd regex problem (isn't it always)

Andy, I'm not a regex ninja, like some, but I think what you're looking for is this. Escape the space character (using ^) so that any backreferences stop at the space character. cfset reg = @([a-zA-Z0-9][^ ]+) / Then you can use the first backreference: cfset usernamePos = reReplace(str,