The simplest regex to grab the input string would be:
<input .*?>
Well, technically, you could shorten "input" until it's one character
different from all other tags ("in"?) but I don't think that's really
*simpler* so much as shorter.
--Ben Doom
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> At 12:25 PM 09/11/2007, Larry Lyons wrote:
>>> OK. So here's what I think I've figured out. It'll take more testing
>>> before I'm sure.
>>>
>>> You can't use a positive lookahead before the main section. I should
>>> have known this, given the name "lookahead", right?
>>>
>>> CF does not support lookbehind.
>>>
>>> As a workaround, you can grab the whole <input...> string, then do
>>> another check to find the name="..." bit. Not efficient or elegant, but
>>> it should do the trick.
>>>
>>> --Ben Doom
>>>
>> Thanks Ben that's where I'm at right now, I can get the input
>> strings, now I need to get what's between name="..."
>
> Hi Larry,
> Would you mind sharing the way you're getting the input
> string? I have a really clunky method, and I wouldn't mind improving it.
>
> T
>
>
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