Try this: <cfset string = "this is <b>firstname.lastname...@email.com</b> email address" /> <cfset email = refindNoCase("(<b>)(([A-Z0-9_%+-]*\.)+[a-z0-9_%+...@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4})(<\/b>)", string, 1, true )/>
<cfdump var="#mid( string, email.POS[3], email.LEN[3] )#"> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Dean Lawrence <dean...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can anyone help me with a particular regex patten? I am trying to find any > email address that has at least one dot in the username portion and the > entire email string is surrounded by bold tags? > > Thanks > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:318677 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4