Ahh I see, yeah that could pose and issue. I will check out what you sent
and let you know. I probably will not get to it until later today.
Thanks Peter.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Peter Boughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it's very easy to get carried away with overthinking regex - I've
> done it plenty of times. :)
>
>
> There may be situations where working with only the original text is
> required, but I couldn't think of any - once linebreaks are preserved
> it should be fine - and I think actually cutting out unwanted parts
> way is a simpler method.
>
>
> However, I have thought up a situation where the regex I supplied would
> fail...
>
> Consider this:
> varY = "ab#LCase("C;DEF;G")#hi";
>
> The nested quotes inside the hashes are valid syntax, but confuse the
> regex, and the semicolons would be left when they shouldn't be.
>
> One way of solving that is to first strip all hashed variables - I
> think that makes sense, but haven't fully thought it through.
>
> Here's the quick test code I've thrown together for that:
>
> <cfsavecontent variable="reHashed">#([^#]|##)+#</cfsavecontent>
> <cfsavecontent variable="reDouble">"([^"]|"")+"</cfsavecontent>
> <cfsavecontent variable="reSingle">'([^']|'')+'</cfsavecontent>
>
> <cfoutput>
> <pre>
> #SourceText#<hr/>
> <cfset SourceCopy = jre.replace( SourceCopy , reHashed ,'{hashed}' , 'all'
> )/>
> #SourceCopy#<hr/>
> <cfset SourceCopy = jre.replace( SourceCopy , reDouble ,'{dquoted}' , 'all'
> )/>
> #SourceCopy#<hr/>
> <cfset SourceCopy = jre.replace( SourceCopy , reSingle ,'{squoted}' ,
> 'all' )/>
> #SourceCopy#<hr/>
> </pre>
> </cfoutput>
>
>
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