Ben, although I agree with you on non-greedy matches, Axel (a colleague of mine btw) was correct: it will match your example.
</[^p] was in the group and will match </a It wasn't complete, because it won't match <p><pre>test</pre></p>, but this can be fixed by adding </p[^>] in the group. Pascal > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12 January 2005 16:02 > To: RegEx > Subject: Re: Any character, any character at all. > > Except the <[^/] prevents it from matching this: > > <p><a>link</a></p> > > Off the top of my head, I think it would work if you used this instead: > </[^p] > > Just to be nitpicky, it was impossible to do a non-greedy match. What > you are doing approximates one, but it isn't really the same thing. > > take all that with a grain of salt -- I'm still getting the first dose > of caffiene into my system. > > --Ben > > Axel Glorieux wrote: > >>>If you want to only grab the first paragraph you need to set the regex > to be > >>>"not greedy". It escapes me how to do that in CFMX (which uses Java > >>>RegExes), but unfortunately this just couldn't be done in CF before MX. > > > > > > > > Thats not quite true, it's just a bit trickier. > > > > str = "<p><b>hello</b></p><p>goodbye</p>" > > > > RE = "<p[^>]*>([^<]|<[^/]|</[^p])+</p>" > > > > Using this you can loop to REFindNoCase every <p> tag in a string > provided that they're not nested. This should work with CF5. > > > > This is for those poor souls who for some reason must stick to a version > prior to MX ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:818 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/21 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:21 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.21 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
