From: Mark Henderson > Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 10:19 a.m. > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Regex help with search strings > > Hi > > I have a search box that currently contains only one field. I > normally have one input for first name, one for lat name and > so on, which makes the task of searching somewhat easier. > However, in this scenario that is not the case. So, what I > want to do is split the search term entered into distinct variables. > > An example - let's say someone enters "joe blogs" in the > search field (without quotes). I then want to be able to > parse it so that I have one variable for "joe" and another > for "blogs", which I can then search on since the database is > organised into first_name, last_name, maiden_name, email, > etc. The criteria for this will be the space between the names. > This looks like a case for regular expressions. I know how to > use REFind to check for the space, but that's all so far > (I've spent some time on this, and even read the docs!). Can > someone help me here please?
For some reason Outlook decided to try and send my previous post as HTML when I have HOF clearly set in my address book to use plain text - my apologies for that. Anyway, something like the following seems to work: <cfset searchstringRight = REReplace(searchstring, "[a-z]+ ", "", "ALL") /> <cfset searchstringLeft = REReplace(searchstring, " [a-z]+", "", "ALL") /> But if there is something else I can or should be doing when checking the field please let me know. Mark -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by ISPNZ's automated virus detection system, and is believed to be clean. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:284678 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
