If you have the CF reference materials, "Developing Applications with Cold Fusion" has a chapter on Regular Expressions. Scan through it. Near that back is a ready made Strip HTML regex you can use. Or http://www.cflib.org/ has a UDF to strip HTML.
H. > -----Original Message----- > From: Les Irvin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 12:34 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Verity hassles > > Can anyone point me to a comprehensive reference to setting up a Verity > search page? I'm trying to index a database memo field so it's searchable > > by keyword. The entries in this field contain much text with html tags > scattered throughout and I want to show summary output on the results > page. > > Problem is, displaying results using the HTMLEditFormat() function still > returns unprocessed html tags in the summary text. When the > HTMLEditFormat() function is not used, however, all the html is processed > and displayed in the summary. > > Should I be handling this problem at the indexing stage rather than at the > > output stage? If so, how? > > Thanks for any help you can give. > Les > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4