Steven wrote:
> From what I've been reading so far I think this regex should work:
> [^#]#[a-fA-F0-9]{3,6}
> If I'm correct it would pick up #FF3366 but not ##FF3366.
That will not just pick up #FF3366 it will *also* pick-up the character before
that (either space, colon, quote, etc).
If you are simply identifying matches, that doesn't make a huge difference -
however, it also means you need to manually fix matches, which is boring.
I explicitly used a negative lookbehind to exclude any preceeding hash without
also matching any characters, so that they can be escaped automatically with a
simple search/replace.
(You only need the "a-f" part if you are doing a case-sensitive match/replace -
given that this is as simple as ticking/unticking a checkbox in an IDE, I
didn't bother with that in any of my expressions.)
If you really want to use your CF application for this, you can easily access
java regex (which supports lookbehinds) by doing:
NewString = OldString.replaceAll('regex','replacement')
Which probably means you spend much less time manually escaping colours
everywhere.
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