How about:
<cfset nNumTabs = ListLen(sOrderFile, "#chr(9)#">
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Renet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 10:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: My brain is fried, can someone give me some regular expression
help please...
I have a character string, which is basically a tab delimited list. I need
a regular expression that will count the tabs in the string and verify they
are all there.
Essentially, I would like a regular expression that does this:
<cfset sOrderFile = "123 75 w1234567890 GRD 8/17/00 Sean Renet Broadcast
Dynamics 1230 MyStreet St. Los Angeles CA 90026 323-555-1212
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Amy Jones 1630 Your St. Apt. 2 Silverlake CA
90026 323-666-2137 323-555-4567 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Driver's liscence
C13546545 1234 I387409-0983 2 A Bit of the Bubbly Hi Sean, Here
is your champagne Hope you enjoy it! Amy Dane ">
<cfset nLength = #Len(sOrderFile)#>
<cfset nPosition = 0> <!--- Position of tab in string --->
<cfset nNewPosition = 0> <!--- Next position to start with after finding a
tab --->
<cfset nNumTabs = 0> <!--- Number of tabs. Return this variable --->
<cfset sTab = #Chr(9)#> <!--- Tab character --->
<!--- Go through the string --->
<cfloop condition="(#nNewPosition# LT #nLength#)">
<cfset nNewPosition = nPosition + 1>
<cfset nPosition = #Find(sTab,sOrderFile,nNewPosition)#>
<cfif nPosition EQ 0> <!--- No more tabs, done --->
<cfbreak>
</cfif>
<cfset nNumTabs = nNumTabs + 1> <!--- Start looking for new tab 1
position after last one --->
</cfloop>
<!--- Return nNumTabs here --->
<cfoutput>#nNumTabs#</cfoutput>
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