Makes good sense to me...(that's frightening..) Rick
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:48 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: How do I write a Regex for this? > > > In Regular Expressions, just like life, there are often about a > bazillion ways to do something. For example, in CF6+, you can identify > digits with [0-9], [1234567890], or [[:digit:]]. > > In a character class (anything in []) there are odd rules about what > needs to be escaped when. For example, this: [[]] will correctly match > square brackets. However, to add a backslash, you can't just escape the > backslash: [\\[]] -- you now need to escape all the special > chars: [\\\[\]] > > Weird, eh? > > Anyway, the answer is that in your example, you don't really need t > escape the special characters, but it doesn't hurt anything. > > I'm sure tht didn't so muuch clarify things as explain why you're > confused, but it's the best I could do on short notice. :-) > > --Ben > > Rick Faircloth wrote: > > Hmmm..I'm getting conflicting info from the list... > > > > One said to escape the characters... \.\$, (don't > > know why the comma wasn't escaped...perhaps > > it isn't "special"...(now it's sad because it's not "special"... ;o) > > > > Another said they don't need to be escaped... > > > > You're coming down on the escape side... > > > > would it be REReplace(string, "[\.\$,]", "", "All") > > or > > would it be REReplace(string, "[\.\$\,]", "", "All") > > > > ? > > > > Just for the record, I implemented it without the > > escapes yesterday and it seems to be performing correctly... > > > > Rick > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:234634 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
