Well, you don't really need the outside parens, so you could just ditch those.
I could be remembering this wrong, but IIRC, CF5's engine remembered backreferences in the order they are completed, not started, but I could be wrong about that. It's been a little while since I had to play in that particular sandbox. :-) --Ben Jim McAtee wrote: > CF5. In the following I keep getting a bad backreference error. I > thought the nested expressions in parens should give me \1 = entire > matching string, then \2 = first submatch, \3 = 2nd submatch, etc. > > I'm taking a string containing concatenated three-character weekday > abbreviations and expanding them. Example: > > SatSun => Sat,Sun > > re = > '((sun)(mon)|(mon)(tue)|(tue)(wed)|(wed)(thu)|(thu)(fri)|(fri)(sat)|(sat)(sun))'; > s = REReplaceNoCase(s, re, '\2,\3', 'all'); // adjacent weekdays > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:226475 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
