Two days of trial and error and I got something that seems to work: <(/?)a([^>]*?(?=target|>))( *target="[^"]*" *)?([^>]*)
With my limited understanding of Regular Expressions I believe this works as such: < - match the opening angle bracket '<' character. (/?) - match an optional forward slash character '/' and put result in back reference 1. a - match the 'a' character. ([^>]*?(?=target|>)) - match the minimum zero or more characters until either 'target' or '>' and put result in back reference 2. ( *target="[^"]*" *)? - match an optional 'target="..." with zero or more non-double quote characters between the double quotes and put in back reference 3. ([^>]*) - match zero or more non-angle bracket characters that maybe left after all the above an put into back reference 4. Do I understand all that correctly and does anybody see if there is any way this could be re-factored and simplified? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/regex/message.cfm/messageid:1215 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/regex/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.21
