Forgot to add this is what I used to extract the input form fields: '<input[^>]*?name[/s]*=[/s]*(["])(.*?)\2[^>]*?>'
larry > >'name="[^"]"' or 'name=".*?"' -- either should work. > > > >--Ben Doom > > > Thanks for you help Ben. > > Unfortunately both just return a 1 - the starting position of name=". > > So here's what I ended up doing - its a kludge but it works for now. I > hope to refine it later. First to extract the <input... strings from > each of the forms, I used a set of regex UDF's by Steven Levithan, > http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/rematch-coldfusion > > That returns an array of structs consisting of the starting position > of the search string, the length and the value. > I then loop over the array and extract the name="..." strings using a > find to get the position and length of the name attribute's value. > Then its a matter of using mid() to extract the name. > > regards, > > larry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/RegEx/message.cfm/messageid:1097 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/RegEx/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.21
