No, sadly. It's just a field of text, sometimes the entries (names) are seperated by commas, sometimes by new lines, but not everything is a name.
A bit of background - basically, this is a text description about an event, and includes the names of the artists performing. I'm trying to implement a function so that the client can add profiles about artists, and if the artist has a profile this is reached by a link to a new window containing more info, an image etc.. For example typical content in the works_string might look like: David Rees-Williams Trio<br> <b>A Taste of France: Jazz Transcriptions of the Classics.</b> But the only part that might need to be transformed to a link would be David Rees-Williams Trio. That's fine, and the code I wrote can do that. However, you might also have a profile for David Rees-Williams, so the code needs to be clever enough to recognise that, and this is where the problem lies. If I was building this from scratch I'd change the way the data is stored, so that each artist was a separate entry in the db, and then it would be an easy task. But I'm not and that's not really an option. Thanks Will -----Original Message----- From: Gaulin, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 April 2007 13:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string. Is there a delimited in the list of names (work_string), something that you can include in your reg ex to "anchor" it to an entire entry? Mark -----Original Message----- From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 5:27 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Regex help looking for a name in a string. Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me. I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which may or may not contain one or more of the names. I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find it, make it a hyperlink. So far I have this: <cfset works_string = qry_getEvent.works> <cfloop query="qry_getProfiles"> <cfset works_string = REReplaceNoCase(#works_string#, #artist#, "<a href='profiles.cfm?e=#profileID#' target='artistWin'>#artist#</a>", "ALL")> </cfloop> Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or contain the same words - for example John Smith John Smith & Sons If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the John Smith part but not the rest. Any suggestions? Thanks will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276385 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
