Thanks Matt, i didn't think to use the \A and \Z as this was where i was getting lost, i couldn't understand how to constrain it just to those options, but your example works perfectly and i have learned something new :)
thanks again richard >\b is an escape sequence that, as taken from the docs: > >"Specifies a boundary defined by a transition from an alphanumeric character >to a nonalphanumeric character, or from a nonalphanumeric character to an >alphanumeric character." > >Since you're passing in "Dr|", the pipe character matches, as it is a >transition from an alphanumeric character to a non-alphanumeric character. > >Assuming that you're wanting the title to be the only thing in the field, >with the exception of a possible period at the end, try something like this: > ><cfset var titleRegEx = "\A(Dr|Prof|Mr|Mrs|Ms|Miss)(\.)?\Z" /> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313954 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
