On Jul 1, 2004, at 7:59 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote:

>  If a text input box is found, replace it with the text contained in
>  the "value" attribute.
>  If a checkbox, radio, hidden or password input box is found, remove
> it.
>  If a select is found, replace it with the display of the selected
> option.
>  If a textarea is found, replace it with the conents of the textarea.
>
>  I know that I can do this by using a condition loop and a lot of
>  searching but is there a better way that it can be done?

Regexps are a good choice.  A good regexp engine (CFMX's or Java's?)
can easily outperform any conditionals you could write.

Best to not get too fancy -- just write 4 successive regexps that
process the text

HTH

Dick

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there have always been times like these."
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