Yeah, that's probably the safest method - anything that's NOT a letter or number. Good call.
Joshua Miller Head Programmer / IT Manager Garrison Enterprises Inc. www.garrisonenterprises.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (704) 569-9044 ext. 254 ************************************************************************ ************* Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender states them to be the views of Garrison Enterprises Inc. This e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and contains information that is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please delete it immediately and advise us by return e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ ************* -----Original Message----- From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Regular Expression Help lastly, you could think backwards [^A-Za-z0-9] Rob http://treebeard.sourceforge.net http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net Scientia Est Potentia -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Regular Expression Help 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 % & ` ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ / ] ^ _ { | } ~ ======================================================================= Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
