I dont know what I was thinking but that wont work either. Say you had Bobby and Bobby Hartsfield
If you replaced Bobby Hartsfield with a link then Bobby... the code would replace the Bobby within Bobby Hartsfield You will need to order the names by length descending to make sure the longer names are taken care of first but you will also need to use a regular expression to replace the strings only if they are NOT within <a.*?>(#artist#)</a> already -----Original Message----- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string. Yes, Do it in your query. Try this... Select artist >From tablename Order by length(artist) -----Original Message----- From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string. Hi Bobby, Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7 Thanks Will -----Original Message----- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string. Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only need replace(works_string, artist, "<a href='profiles.cfm?e=#profileID#' target='artistWin'>#artist#</a>", "all") ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276431 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
