Jeff, definetly use Josh's code - just make sure that the chars you want
match the [[:punct:]] char class - from the docs:
Matches any punctuation character, that is, one of ! ' # S % & ` ( ) * +
, - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ / ] ^ _ { | } ~
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:43 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Regular Expression Help
>
>
> Oh, forgot the space .... use "[[:punct:]]||[[:space:]]" as the RegEX
>
> Joshua Miller
> Head Programmer / IT Manager
> Garrison Enterprises Inc.
> www.garrisonenterprises.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (704) 569-9044 ext. 254
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff D. Chastain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:31 PM
> 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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