Thanks Bobby, I'll give that a shot.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bobby Hartsfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, Here is how I do it in CF4em to replace things like [code]some > code[/code] > > Loop the string, replacing the blocks with a marker and storing the name in > an array (the array position would match the marker) > Then you can loop the array, convert the names to links and put them back > into their original places with replace(str, '**marker1**', newLink, 'all') > > You can download cf4em (http://cf4em.com/downloads) and view > /inc/parsebbml.cfm for some working code. > > Specifically, check out how code blocks, url blocks, and encryption blocks > are removed, modified and put back into place. You could probably do both at > once and skip the array in your case. > > A regex for your case would look like: <email>(.*?)</email> > > > ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. > Bobby Hartsfield > http://acoderslife.com > http://cf4em.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Prevost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 5:43 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Complex RegEx help request > > Hi all. I'm hoping someone can help out with this problem I've run into. > > I'm trying to make our home grown CMS a bit easier to use for our > editors and easier to maintain. The issue at hand involves how we code > email addresses into the content. I have an even that pops up a new > contact window (CFwindow) and takes a Firstname and Lastname > parameter. From there when the form is filled out the model looks up > the email address based on the firstname/lastname combo and that all > works great. However, I now want to tweak the code just a bit and will > need to do some interesting find/replace work on the db side...which > isn't a huge deal but I'd rather avoid doing it again every time I > need to make changes. > > My thought was to use a pseudo tag such as <email>Firstname > Lastname</email> which would be really easy for our editors to use and > I'd replace that pseudo tag at display time with the actual link to > the cfwindow. That works great in my mind, but I'm having a heck of a > time creating a RegEx that will do what I want. > > In summary, anyone have any pointers as to which direction I should go > to turn this: > > <email>Firstname Lastname</email> > > into this: > > <a > href="javascript:ColdFusion.Window.create('staffContact#FirstName##Lastname# > ','Contact%20#Firstname#%20#Lastname#','/index.cfm?event=page.comment&firstn > ame=#firstname#&lastname=#lastname#',{center:true,height:400,width:600,modal > :false,closable:true,draggable:true,resizable:true,center:true,initshow:true > ,minheight:200,minwidth:200})">Email > #Firstname# #Lastname#</a> > > Any thoughts would be much appreciated! > > Thanks, > Jeremy > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:305679 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
