Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Rick Mason
I'm in need of some regex help. I am working with a cfinput and I need a pattern for regex validation that does the following: Field can be blank but if filled out has to be exactly 17 characters which are a combination of letters and numbers (VIN number) Know this is simple but Google seems

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Nadel
Try this: ^$|^[\w]{17}$ -Ben -- Ben Nadel Adobe Community Expert Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Manager New York ColdFusion User Group http://www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? http://www.bennadel.com/Ask-Ben

RE: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Andy Matthews
[ ]|[a-z0-9]{17} Should do it... That basically allows for a space, or for 17 alphanumeric characters. -Original Message- From: Rick Mason [mailto:rhma...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:50 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Simple regex question I'm in need of some regex help. I

RE: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Andy Matthews
Great minds Ben...great minds. -Original Message- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:b...@bennadel.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:51 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Simple regex question Try this: ^$|^[\w]{17}$ -Ben -- Ben Nadel Adobe Community Expert Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Nadel
Ha ha, most agreed :) -- Ben Nadel Adobe Community Expert Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Manager New York ColdFusion User Group http://www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? http://www.bennadel.com/Ask-Ben ~|

RE: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Andy Matthews
://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=217075.0 It all just depends on how accurate you need to be. andy -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:li...@commadelimited.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:52 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Simple regex question [ ]|[a-z0-9]{17} Should do

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Nadel
I have to plead ignorance on this one - I don't know what a VIN number is. -- Ben Nadel Adobe Community Expert Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Manager New York ColdFusion User Group http://www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? http://www.bennadel.com/Ask-Ben

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Rick Mason
Thanks you Andy and Ben for your quick response. A VIN number is a vehicle identification number which is on your car's registration as well as being on the driver side dash. Think of it as a unique serial number for your car with vehicle information baked into the number. Andy the only

RE: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Andy Matthews
the VIN. andy -Original Message- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:b...@bennadel.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:59 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Simple regex question I have to plead ignorance on this one - I don't know what a VIN number is. -- Ben Nadel Adobe Community Expert Adobe

RE: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Dawson, Michael
Think of it as a unique serial number for your car with vehicle information baked into the number. Show me the CARFAX! ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion

RE: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Adrian Lynch
There's a ISVIN function on CFLib and I had originally proposed to my boss that I rewrite it in javascript but he didn't want that level of functionality. Just do it, don't ask the boss! :OD ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Rick Mason
...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:50 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Simple regex question I'm in need of some regex help. I am working with a cfinput and I need a pattern for regex validation that does the following: Field can be blank but if filled out has to be exactly 17

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Azadi Saryev
, Andy Matthews li...@commadelimited.comwrote: [ ]|[a-z0-9]{17} Should do it... That basically allows for a space, or for 17 alphanumeric characters. -Original Message- From: Rick Mason [mailto:rhma...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:50 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Simple

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Azadi Saryev
...@commadelimited.comwrote: [ ]|[a-z0-9]{17} Should do it... That basically allows for a space, or for 17 alphanumeric characters. -Original Message- From: Rick Mason [mailto:rhma...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:50 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Simple regex question I'm in need

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Ben Nadel
\w should handle both alpha and numeric data. I am not sure why mine was failing. -Ben -- Ben Nadel Adobe Community Expert Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer Manager New York ColdFusion User Group http://www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? http://www.bennadel.com/Ask-Ben

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Rick Mason
, June 10, 2009 9:50 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Simple regex question I'm in need of some regex help. I am working with a cfinput and I need a pattern for regex validation that does the following: Field can be blank but if filled out has to be exactly 17 characters which

Re: Simple regex question

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Boughton
In CF regex, \w is same as [a-zA-Z0-9_] Most other regex flavours are the same as this. Some regex flavours also include accented characters (áéí...) in their \w matches. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with

RE: simple RegEx?

2009-04-11 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
:00 AM To: cf-talk Subject: simple RegEx? This should be simple for all you RegEx Gurus. I have a textarea field that may contain list numbers such as : (i) (ii). What I want to do is convert those to LI statements. I know you have to escape the parathesis but it produces: LIi) and LIii) How

simple RegEx?

2009-04-02 Thread CF Developer
This should be simple for all you RegEx Gurus. I have a textarea field that may contain list numbers such as : (i) (ii). What I want to do is convert those to LI statements. I know you have to escape the parathesis but it produces: LIi) and LIii) How can I change it just to an LI statement

RE: simple RegEx?

2009-04-02 Thread Adrian Lynch
Check the stackoverflow in this result: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=enq=find+roman+numerals+regexbtnG=Search meta= Adrian -Original Message- From: CF Developer [mailto:coldfus...@mindkeeper.net] Sent: 02 April 2009 13:00 To: cf-talk Subject: simple RegEx? This should

Simple regex question...

2008-10-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
Morning all. I need a RegEx to strip all of the characters that appear after the *last* dash in a string (the last dash needs to be stripped as well). How would I do something like that? Sample data is below. Thanks! 2995,2818-5 33054--2 3320-4 7789-4(1) 3641-45-1 Che Vilnonis Application

RE: Simple regex question...

2008-10-14 Thread Adrian Lynch
ListLast(theString, -) Adrian Building a database of ColdFusion errors at http://cferror.org/ -Original Message- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 October 2008 15:27 To: cf-talk Subject: Simple regex question... Morning all. I need a RegEx to strip all

RE: Simple regex question...

2008-10-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
Adrian, Azadi... Thanks, that worked. -Original Message- From: Azadi Saryev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:35 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Simple regex question... how about just left(string, len(string)-len(listlast(string, -))-1) ? Azadi Saryev Sabai

Re: Simple regex question...

2008-10-14 Thread Azadi Saryev
how about just left(string, len(string)-len(listlast(string, -))-1) ? Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ Che Vilnonis wrote: Morning all. I need a RegEx to strip all of the characters that appear after the *last* dash in a string (the last dash needs to be stripped as

Re: Simple regex question...

2008-10-14 Thread Peter Boughton
I need a RegEx to strip all of the characters that appear after the *last* dash in a string (the last dash needs to be stripped as well). To match the last dash and everything after it, you want: -[^-]*$ So to use that to strip of that segment of the string, just do: dashless = rereplace( dashed

Yet Another Simple Regex Q

2004-10-04 Thread Matt Robertson
I have this regex which works splendidly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to make it so the string has no less than 6 and no more than 60 chars, but if I plug in {6,60} it seems to either error out or keep the regex from working no matter where or how I place it. What am I missing?Ben's regex book

Re: Yet Another Simple Regex Q

2004-10-04 Thread Ben Doom
[EMAIL PROTECTED],60}$ seemed to work for me in a quick test.What CF version, etc.? --Ben Matt Robertson wrote: I have this regex which works splendidly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to make it so the string has no less than 6 and no more than 60 chars, but if I plug in {6,60} it seems to

Re: Yet Another Simple Regex Q

2004-10-04 Thread Matt Robertson
ben Doom wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED],60}$ Argh.I kept the plus sign when I was trying this before: [EMAIL PROTECTED],60}$ Works great now.Thanks! --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. mysecretbase.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

Simple RegEx question

2003-09-05 Thread Mike Mertsock
Hi, I'm using cffile to read a .txt file. I need to Replace the Carriage Return Line feed with a '|' when the new line begins with a '0' or a '1' and a '*' when the new line begins with a ''. I am just too unfamiliar with RegEx to do it. Any Ideas? David DiPietro OSU College of Medicine Given

Simple RegEx question

2003-09-04 Thread David DiPietro
Hi, I'm using cffile to read a .txt file. I need to Replace the Carriage Return Line feed with a '|' when the new line begins with a '0' or a '1' and a '*' when the new line begins with a ''. I am just too unfamiliar with RegEx to do it. Any Ideas? David DiPietro OSU College of Medicine

Re: Simple RegEx question - got it :)

2003-09-04 Thread David DiPietro
Got it thanks - Original Message - From: David DiPietro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:50 PM Subject: Simple RegEx question Hi, I'm using cffile to read a .txt file. I need to Replace the Carriage Return Line feed

Re: Simple RegEx question

2003-09-04 Thread info
PM Subject: Re: Simple RegEx question Hi, I'm using cffile to read a .txt file. I need to Replace the Carriage Return Line feed with a '|' when the new line begins with a '0' or a '1' and a '*' when the new line begins with a ''. I am just too unfamiliar with RegEx to do it. Any Ideas? David

RE: Simple RegEx question

2003-09-04 Thread Ben Doom
: -Original Message- : From: David DiPietro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:50 PM : To: CF-Talk : Subject: Simple RegEx question : : : Hi, : : I'm using cffile to read a .txt file. : I need to Replace the Carriage Return Line feed with a '|' when : the new line

RE: calling ben doom or other 4 simple regex

2003-08-29 Thread Ben Doom
or other 4 simple regex : : : How about Rereplace(mystring, [^$]*\$([[:digit:]]+)\..*, \1) : : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Friday, 29 August 2003 9:11 a.m. : To: CF-Talk : Subject: calling ben doom or other 4 simple regex : : i have a form

calling ben doom or other 4 simple regex

2003-08-28 Thread cf
i have a form that the user can select from a menu say they pick this one DVD : Shipping(europe) : insurance total $27.00(us funds) i need to strip that down to be just the dollar amount in a whole # so that # can be used on a paypal button. in this case 27

AW: calling ben doom or other 4 simple regex

2003-08-28 Thread Ingo Mann
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Re: calling ben doom or other 4 simple regex

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
or other 4 simple regex i have a form that the user can select from a menu say they pick this one DVD : Shipping(europe) : insurance total $27.00(us funds) i need to strip that down to be just the dollar amount in a whole # so that # can be used on a paypal button. in this case 27

RE: calling ben doom or other 4 simple regex

2003-08-28 Thread Barney Boisvert
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RE: calling ben doom or other 4 simple regex

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Walker
How about Rereplace(mystring, [^$]*\$([[:digit:]]+)\..*, \1) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 29 August 2003 9:11 a.m. To: CF-Talk Subject: calling ben doom or other 4 simple regex i have a form that the user can select from a menu