> All of those will need to be escaped when literally trying to match them
> + * ? . [ ^ $ ( ) { | \All of THESE not those :-) -----Original Message----- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:08 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Regex Help You will need to escape SOME of them. All of those will need to be escaped when literally trying to match them + * ? . [ ^ $ ( ) { | \ There is also a [:punct:] that matches all of these characters ! ' # S % & ` ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ / ] ^ _ { | } ~ Are you trying to match the EXACT pattern of @#$^_* or just any of them? To match the sequence: @#\$\^_\* To match just 1 of them @|#|\$|\^|_|\* As for books, Ben Forta's Teach yourself regular expressions in 10 minutes is a quick, easy to follow crash course as well as decent reference when your mind draws a blank. -----Original Message----- From: Steve LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Regex Help I have been playing around with some regex patterns and have run into a snag. One issue the regex works differently in IE6 and Firefox. I didn't know the regex would behave differently in these browsers. The main issue is validating the use of character class (@#$^_*). Do I need to escape these? I have tried several ways of setting up the regex. I get an "Invalid CFML construct found" error. ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[ @#$^_*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$ ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (?!.*s).{8,127}$ (?=^.{8,127}$)(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])([EMAIL PROTECTED]).*$ Any guidance would be appreciated - Also can anyone recommend specific books on how to create and understand them better? Steve LaBadie, Web Manager East Stroudsburg University 200 Prospect St. East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301 570-422-3999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.esu.edu <http://www3.esu.edu> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269503 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
