Now that I look more closely, the ? is wrong (good catch!) and you've got
too many brackets. However, that still doesn't fix the benben problem, as I
explained in another email.
The re should be (^|[^a-zA-Z])#oldName#([^a-zA-Z]|$)
Note that the a-zA-Z is not in a second set of brackets.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:12 AM
: To: CF-Talk
: Subject: RE: Regex replacing whole words
:
:
: Nice touch. Handles the two most obvious cases.
:
: OK, I made a mistake, which explains the "ben ben" non-find.
:
: Get rid of the ? in both [^[a-zA-Z]] checks.
:
: <cfset oldname="ben">
: <cfset newname="mike>
: <cfset
: newStr=rereplace(str,"(^|[^[a-zA-Z]])#oldName#([^[a-zA-Z]]|$)","\1
: #newName#\2","ALL")>
:
: <cfset oldname="Ben">
: <cfset newname="Mike">
: <cfset
: newStr=rereplace(newStr,"(^|[^[a-zA-Z]])#oldName#([^[a-zA-Z]]|$)",
: "\1#newName#\2","ALL")>
:
: Jerry Johnson
:
:
: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/04/03 11:01AM >>>
: Standing on the shoulders of giants a very quick and dirty way of
: dealing with the case issue:
:
: <cfset oldname="ben">
: <cfset newname="mike>
: <cfset
: t=rereplace(str,"(^|[^[a-zA-Z]]?)#oldName#([^[a-zA-Z]]?|$)","\1#newName#
: \2","ALL")>
:
: <cfset oldname="Ben">
: <cfset newname="Mike">
: <cfset
: t=rereplace(str,"(^|[^[a-zA-Z]]?)#oldName#([^[a-zA-Z]]?|$)","\1#newName#
: \2","ALL")>
:
: i.e. not using REReplaceNoCase, just REReplace.
:
: AndrT
:
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: 04 June 2003 15:46
: To: CF-Talk
: Subject: Re: Regex replacing whole words
:
: This gets you part of the way:
:
: <cfset oldname="ben">
: <cfset str="Ben lives in benland. But ben is actually not called ben.
: He's called ben-dabble.">
: <cfset newname="mike">
:
: <cfset
: t=rereplaceNoCase(str,"(^|[^[a-zA-Z]]?)#oldName#([^[a-zA-Z]]?|$)","\1#ne
: wName#\2","ALL")>
:
: <cfoutput>#t#</cfoutput>
:
:
: Note that it does not retain the proper capitalization from the
: original, but instead uses the name as supplied by newName.
:
: To get the proper capitalization, I think you will either need to run
: through every permutation of capitalization as different case-specific
: regex, or do a find-and-replace instead.
:
: Ninja, any ideas here?
:
: Jerry Johnson
:
: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/04/03 10:34AM >>>
: I can't get my head around regular expressions! Help me please before I
: go mad!
:
: I need to replace one word with another, matching cases (if possible),
: but in a smart way. eg.
:
: "Ben lives in benland. But ben is actually not called ben. He's called
: ben-dabble"
:
: Say I want to replace 'ben' (any case) with 'mike', I would like to get:
:
: "Mike lives in benland. But mike is actually not called mike. He's
: called mike-dabble"
:
: Note the punctuation - I only want whole words, or words which are
: surrounded by punctuation. Does that make sense?
:
: I know I'm asking a lot but doing it using normal code and replace() is
: a slow operation. Even a reg-ex which will just replace whole words
: (including if they're at the beginning or end of a string) would be
: fantastic. I could do 2 regexs to do the case-matching, if it's not
: possible to do it in 1.
:
: Many Thanks!
:
:
:
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