That's why you the ninja. This also helps solve his need for an index to just the AT part of the word, rather than the beginning of the word (which is what I was shooting towards).
The find would return all the indexes one character less than the start of the "at" string. This wouldn't, though. find AT at the beginning of the string, would it? Thanks for the fixes, Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/03 03:47PM >>> Technically, it doesn't since it doesn't match "at" by itself. (^|) This is either the beginning of the string or a space, so the beginning of a word. Probably unnecessary in this case ([^ ]*) This is zero or more non-spaces. In this example, dots and letters. ([^c ]) This is one not-c or not-space. at This is "at" :-) What you should really be using is rereplacenocase(str, "([^c]| )at", "\1AT", "all") which capitalizes all the "at"s except in "cat". -- Ben Doom Programmer & General Lackey Moonbow Software, Inc : -----Original Message----- : From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:29 PM : To: CF-Talk : Subject: Re: Regex help : : : Hopefully Ben can tell me why this appears to work. : : <cfset str="gat...a chat cat hat prate at bird..."> : : <cfset f=reReplaceNoCase(str,"(^| )([^ ]*)([^C ])at","\1\2\3AT","ALL")> : <cfoutput>#f#</cfoutput> : : : Jerry Johnson : : : >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/03 01:32PM >>> : Regex help please. I've been busting my brain on this one. : : Here's what I'm trying to do, I could have string like: : "...a cat hat prate at bird..." : And I want to match all the "at" strings except the "at" string in the : "cat". : : I tried a bunch of stuff like: "(^C)?at" but that didn't work. Is this : possible? : : Thanks in advance, Doug : : : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com