You will find as you use regular expressions more that it is often easier to
replace the contents of a string than to use find and then extract it.
eg.
<cfset string = "bla bla bla [code] this is stuff [/code] bla bla bla [code]
this is more stuff [/code]">
<cfset tagName = "code">
<cfset regex = ".*?(\[" & tagName & "\])(.*?)(\[/" & tagName & "\])">
<cfset match = reFindNoCase(regex,string,1,true)>
<cfoutput>
<div style="font-family: courier;">
String: "#string#"<br />
Regex: "#regex#"<br />
</div>
</cfoutput>
<br />
<strong>Using reFindNoCase()</strong>
<br />
<cftry>
<cfoutput>
#mid(string,match.pos[2],match.len[2])#<br />
#mid(string,match.pos[3],match.len[3])#<br />
#mid(string,match.pos[4],match.len[4])#<br />
</cfoutput>
<cfcatch>
<cfoutput>Done!</cfoutput>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
<cfset newString = reReplaceNoCase(string,regex,'\1<br />\2<br />\3<br
/>','all')>
<br />
<strong>Using reReplaceNoCase()</strong>
<br />
<cfoutput>#newString#</cfoutput>
Regards
Spike
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Stephen Milligan
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>Graham
>
>Thanks for your effort, but as my post said, i am trying to
>extract it from a string, not replace it, hence I am using
>REFind, not REReplace.
>
>
>Steve
>
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>
>Here's your solution:
>
>#REReplaceNoCase("[code] This is the code to extract [/code]","\[code\]
>([[:print:]]*) \[/code\]"," \1","ALL")#
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