Dain, thank you very much. Is it safe to assume then that anything else i
want to search for can be added by placing the definition inside another
pair of brackets?
REFindNoCase("[[:Alpha:][0-3][ ][:Punct:]]", myString)
(added [0-3] and [ ] to find a space)
thanks.
>From: "Dain Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Regular Expression Help
>Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:02:45 -0400
>
>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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