Going from limited memory of the subject here, but try something like this:
[\w the|a|..........] (the 'the|a|......' part would be your preposition list...) I think the \w means you are looking for whole words. Or it might be \W... Hope that helps some... Shawn Grover -----Original Message----- From: Jared Stark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Regular Expression Help Hello all. I am trying to write a simple search engine, and would like to replace certain commonly used prepositions from the search string such as 'a','the','for', etc... I have an array of the prepositions that I would like to remove, however the problem I have is that it is removing them when they are subsets of other words, for example 'them' would become 'm' when removing 'the', 'bag' would become 'bg' when removing 'a', etc... I'm not an expert at regular expression, but I'm assuming it is possible to remove only those instances where the prepositions are stand-alone and not subsets of other words. Could someone render me some assistance? Much thanks, Jared ______________________________________________________________________ Why Share? Dedicated Win 2000 Server · PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionc FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
