It's as simple as:
<cfset str =
reReplace("!@##\$%\^&\*()-+={[}]|\\:;""'<,>\.\?/","_","all")>
Notice I had to escape out the # and " for CF and a few character that
regex use like . and *. It's possible I may have missed one though.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff D. Chastain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:31 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Regular Expression Help
>
>
> I am trying to use a regular expression to change all
> possible special characters in a string to underscores
> because I am trying to use the string as a variable name.
>
> Regular expressions are not my specialty and I am running
> into problems using some characters in my reReplace function.
>
> Could somebody offer some suggestions on making this work?
>
> I am needing to replace !@#$%^&*()-+={[}]|\:;"'<,>.?/ plus a
> blank space, all with the _ character.
>
> Thanks
> -- Jeff
>
>
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