Ok, the main regex that will do this is:
(?m-s)^.*?(?:WordToCheck).*$
Except CF8 doesn't support the '-s' flag, to prevent '.' matching
newlines, so instead I had to do:
(?m)^.*?(?:WordToCheck)[^\n]*$
And here's the full code example/test to show it in action:
<cffunction name="countLinesWithWord" returntype="Numeric" output="false">
<cfargument name="InputText" type="String"/>
<cfargument name="WordRegex" type="String"/>
<cfset var Regex = '(?m)^.*?(?:#Arguments.WordRegex#)[^\n]*$' />
<cfset var Matches = rematch(Regex,Arguments.InputText) />
<cfreturn ArrayLen(Matches)/>
</cffunction>
<cfsavecontent variable="Text">
I have a green apple.
I have two apple. Green apple and red apple.
I have an orange. My brother has red apple and green apple.
I have an orange but my friend give me red apple.
I do have orange and two books. The two books are given by my friend.
</cfsavecontent>
<cfset Text = trim(Text) />
<cfloop index="CurWord" list="apple,red
apple,two,two|green,(?:red|green) apple">
<cfoutput><br/>'#CurWord#'=#countLinesWithWord(Text,CurWord)#</cfoutput>
</cfloop>
Got to rush off now, but let me know if that works as desired, and/or
if you want any bits explained.
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