You could use something like this:
<cfset str = '({name1}/365.25)*(datediff({name2},{name3}))' />
<cfset match = reFindNoCase("datediff\({([^}]*)},{([^}]*)}\)", str, 1, true)
/>
<cfset name2 = mid(str, match.pos[2], match.len[2]) />
<cfset name3 = mid(str, match.pos[3], match.len[3]) />
HTH,
-Dain
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Richard White <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> hi, what if I had a string such as:
>
> <cfset str = '({name1}/365.25)*(datediff({name2},{name3}))' />
>
> ... and wanted to only get the values enclosed in parenthesis that exist
> inside the datediff() part of the string? so effectively the returned array
> would include only {name2} and {name3}
>
> this must be possible with the rematch that you have already helped me
> with, but i cannot seem to understand how to change the regular expression
> to make it return these results
>
> thanks for the help
>
>
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