John,
You almost had it (too many brackets):
<cfif REFindNoCase("[[:Alpha:][:Punct:]]", myString)>
Alpha characters or punctuation were found.
<cfelse>
No alpha characters or punctuation found.
</cfif>
If you need to get the position of the first occurance of these characters,
use subexpressions:
<cfset mystring = "1234.ABCD">
<!--- Use the 'returnsubexpressions' parameter to get the position --->
<cfset something = REFindNoCase("[[:Alpha:][:Punct:]]", myString, 1,
"True")>
<cfif something.pos[1]>
<cfoutput>
Characters found at position: #something.pos[1]#<BR>
</cfoutput>
<cfelse>
No alpha characters or punctuation found.
</cfif>
Dain Anderson
Caretaker, CF Comet
http://www.cfcomet.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Barleycorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 6:42 PM
Subject: Regular Expression Help
> Hello, i'm having some trouble using regular expressions. i read the book
> and looked up examples, but unfortunately, i can't seem to solve my
problem.
> i've written code that checks to see if there is either a letter or a
> punctuation mark in a string, but it's not returning results properly.
> here's the code:
>
> <cfset something = REFindNoCase('[[:Alpha:]][[:Punct:]]', myString)>
>
> and my return value is always zero. can anyone tell me how this should be
> written so that i works? thanks for your help.
>
> oh, forgot one thing, i also need to check to see if there are any spaces
> inside the string. that's something i also don't know how to do. thanks a
> lot.
>
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