I wrote some Java Regular Expression get functions for this very purpose: Case Insensitive: http://www.bennadel.com/snippets/11-JREGetNoCase-strText-strRegExp-.htm
Case Sesnsitive: http://www.bennadel.com/snippets/5-JREGet-strContent-strRegExp-.htm Keep in mind that these are JAVA regular expressions, so slight differences in power... But for basic stuff, should all be the same. Both functions will return an array of the matches. Download the pages (the given link will provide downloads) to see samples. ...................... Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer www.bennadel.com -----Original Message----- From: Millisa Eubanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Extracting Data into an Array I'm trying to find a simple way to go though a block of text and pull out any occurace of links in that block of text. I'm not sure if the problems I'm having are based on the function I am using or the reqular expression. Currently I am using REFind("<a [[:space:]*[:punct:]*[:alnum:]*]>", qLinkReview.TextBlock) where qLinkReview.TextBlock is the block of text that I retreived from the database. The only result I am getting is 0 but I know that all of the text blocks I am looking at have at least one link occurance. Once I am able to identify the links I am going to need to pull them out and put them into an array for evaluation and possible display. I have no idea about how to go about this. I would be greatful for any help I can get. Also, if possible could you include explinations with any code so that I can learn something in the process. Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:256128 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
