You might look into one of the free regular expression tools to make jobs like this easier. One is
http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm On 9/25/07, Kenny Kinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doom > > It seems to be working fine except if there is more than one character > between the sets, it one return the proper count. ie. it won't find the > sets. > > ex sdrsd will reutrn true or 1 > but sdthrsd will return false or 0. > > any thoughts > > and thanks for all of your help. > > >Sure. It follows basically the same principle. > > > >([a-z0-9]{2}).?\1 > > > >This is, btw, a fairly inefficient regex, so I wouldn't run it against, > >say, a K of data at a time, but for 8 chars, I expect the regex engine > >overhead will be larger. In other words, for your purposes, it's fine. > > > >(Not tested, YMMV) > > > >--Ben "HoF Regex Ninja" Doom > > > >Kenny Kinds wrote: > >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289425 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
