Nobody seems to have replied, so here goes....
You don't want to use (.*) as regexes are greedy and will try to match
the biggest string possible. If you have to <a>s in a block, this regex
will match from the start of one to the end of the other.
<cfset content=REReplaceNoCase(content, "<a href=""([^ ""]*)
([^""]*)"">", "<a href=""\1%20\2"">", "all")>
This will only replace one space per anchor. You need to run it
repeatedly to get them all.
Regards,
Matthew Walker
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wallick, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 24 May 2002 3:24 a.m.
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RegExp Help
>
>
> Hey all. I'm trying to cook up a regexp to search a block of
> text for links.
> What I'm looking for is something like:
>
> <a href="path with spaces/file with spaces.htm">
>
> I want to read the block of text and replace spaces with %20
> so links won't
> break. I know, I know, links shouldn't have spaces in them,
> but this is
> something I inherited and changing all the links and
> filenames associated
> with them is not an option (there are thousands of links/files).
>
> I've tried this: <cfset content=REReplaceNoCase(content, '<a
> href="(.*)">',
> '<a href="#URLEncodedFormat(\1)#">', "all")>
>
> and this: <cfset content=REReplaceNoCase(content, '<a
> href="(.*)">', '<a
> href="#Replace(\1, " ", "%20"))#">', "all")>
>
> and those don't work. Can I not use CFML functions on a
> regexp subexpression
> (\1) ?
>
> I'm not exactly an expert on regexps, so any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
>
>
> Mike Wallick
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