Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-10 Thread Wil Genovese
However, when using REReplace your forgetting the 'scope' attribute which lets you specify how many matches to replace. By specifying All you get them all. cfset NumbersOnly = ReReplace(Image12334blue1,[^\d],,All) This replaces everything that is not a Digit - Regex in this case is defining

Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Matt Quackenbush
Ops, I did that backwards... reReplace(myString, [\D], , all) On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Matt Quackenbush [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: reReplace(myString, [^A-Za-z], , all) ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the

RE: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Adrian Lynch
REReplace() Adrian -Original Message- From: Chad Gray Sent: 07 November 2008 16:44 To: cf-talk Subject: strip alpha char I have a list of file names and I only want the numbers in the file names. I don't want any alpha characters. I can use RE to find the numbers, but it get

RE: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Chad Gray
Ah... REReplace... I only knew of REFind... THANKS! -Original Message- From: Matt Quackenbush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:50 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: strip alpha char Ops, I did that backwards... reReplace(myString, [\D], , all

Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Matt Quackenbush
String functions: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/functions-pt0_18.html#1099887 :-) On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Chad Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah... REReplace... I only knew of REFind... THANKS!

RE: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Andy Matthews
There's also REMatch (new in CF8) which returns the actual string matched instead of just the position of that string. -Original Message- From: Chad Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:57 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: strip alpha char Ah... REReplace... I

strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Chad Gray
I have a list of file names and I only want the numbers in the file names. I don't want any alpha characters. I can use RE to find the numbers, but it get complicated to find the starting position of the number and the ending of the numbers then using the mid function to get the number. Is

Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Peter Boughton
Is there some magic CF function to take strings like this an strip the alpha character? With CF8 (and equiv) there is a new rematch function, which would allow: cfset NumbersOnly = rematch( 'Image12334blue' , '\d+' )/ Which is selecting the numbers rather than stripping the non-numbers.

Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Matt Quackenbush
reReplace(myString, [^A-Za-z], , all) On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Chad Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a list of file names and I only want the numbers in the file names. I don't want any alpha characters. I can use RE to find the numbers, but it get complicated to find the