Thank you Jason, Craig and Bobby for your help which is greatly appreciated. However this is not quite what I want. I do apologise for changing my original requirement.
I'll try to explain. I want to read the contents of all the .cfm files in a directory and return all the href tags with the "productID=" text in the query string, ex: <a href="somesite.com/index.cfm?action=get&productID=1">test</a> When I did a search in the codebase for "productID=", I found there were few <a> tags which looked like this: <a title="Find out more" href="somesite.com/index.cfm?action=get&productID=1" onclick="somefunction()"><img src="exmaple.gif" alt="some alt"> I want the regular expression to be able to match the above example as well. If it is not too much of an inconvenience can you please send me the revised code? Regard, cfcoder > EDIT: > > The regex should be this one instead. The one above would not handle > any thing between the href="" and the closing >. > (<a[^>]*href=[> '"](([^'"]*)?([^"']ProductID=?([^&"']*)[^'"]*))['"][^>]*>([^<]*)<\/a>) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299255 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
