Re: Regex help - matching invalid xhtml

[Dominic Watson]

Any reason not to be using the XHTML parsers out there on the produced output?

Dominic

2008/12/3 Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I guess it'd be cool if I were to use (meta|input|img) in there, to flag 
> single tags without the trailing [space]/>
>
> Will
>
> 

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Re: Regex help - matching invalid xhtml

[Will Tomlinson]

I guess it'd be cool if I were to use (meta|input|img) in there, to flag single 
tags without the trailing [space]/>

Will 

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Regex help - matching invalid xhtml

[Will Tomlinson]

I've beat my head against the wall on this regex. I want to match variations of 
invalid xhtml tags. Well, I need to match what's considered to be invalid at my 
place of work. :)

WHat I've got almost works, but not quite. 

(?i)\

It doesn't match this, which is correct. 



But it also doesnt match this, which is incorrect:



It DOES seem to work correctly with other variations. 

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Will



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RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address

[Mike Francisco]

Well, I just found a function on cflib that does exactly what I was looking
for.

Sooo... carry on- nothin' to see here folks



> -Original Message-
> From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:49 PM
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address
> 
> If that's always the format, no need for a RegEx, use ListLast(theString,
> "
> ").
> 
> Adrian
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Francisco
> Sent: 25 September 2008 21:32
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address
> 
> Hello CFers,
> 
> I know this is OT, but I'll ask anyway. I was wondering if someone can
> help
> me with regex.
> 
> I am returning a query object after executing a cfpop.  On the query
> object,
> there is a column named 'From'.  The data string is formatted like:  "John
> Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] .   I would like to use regex to strip the data
> string and just get the email address.
> 
> Thanks in advance, everyone.
> 
> mike
> 
> 
> 

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RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address

[Andy Matthews]

This is a regex I'm using in a recent app that I wrote:



This one is specifically Javascript, but I'd be willing to bet that it would
translate straight up.


Andy 

-Original Message-
From: Mike Francisco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:59 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address

Adrian,
No it might not always be the format- possibly it might just be the email
address only or one with brackets.




> -Original Message-
> From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:49 PM
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address
> 
> If that's always the format, no need for a RegEx, use 
> ListLast(theString, "
> ").
> 
> Adrian
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Francisco
> Sent: 25 September 2008 21:32
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address
> 
> Hello CFers,
> 
> I know this is OT, but I'll ask anyway. I was wondering if someone can 
> help me with regex.
> 
> I am returning a query object after executing a cfpop.  On the query 
> object, there is a column named 'From'.  The data string is formatted 
> like:  "John
> Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] .   I would like to use regex to strip the data
> string and just get the email address.
> 
> Thanks in advance, everyone.
> 
> mike
> 
> 
> 



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RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address

[Adrian Lynch]

Ah, then ignore me :)

Google for an email RegEx and then if you're on CF8 use REMatch() to pull
the email address out.

Adrian

-Original Message-
From: Mike Francisco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 September 2008 21:59
To: cf-talk
Subject: RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address


Adrian,
No it might not always be the format- possibly it might just be the email
address only or one with brackets.




> -Original Message-
> From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:49 PM
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address
>
> If that's always the format, no need for a RegEx, use ListLast(theString,
> "
> ").
>
> Adrian
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Francisco
> Sent: 25 September 2008 21:32
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address
>
> Hello CFers,
>
> I know this is OT, but I'll ask anyway. I was wondering if someone can
> help
> me with regex.
>
> I am returning a query object after executing a cfpop.  On the query
> object,
> there is a column named 'From'.  The data string is formatted like:  "John
> Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] .   I would like to use regex to strip the data
> string and just get the email address.
>
> Thanks in advance, everyone.
>
> mike
>
>
>



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RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address

[Mike Francisco]

Adrian,
No it might not always be the format- possibly it might just be the email
address only or one with brackets.




> -Original Message-
> From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:49 PM
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address
> 
> If that's always the format, no need for a RegEx, use ListLast(theString,
> "
> ").
> 
> Adrian
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Francisco
> Sent: 25 September 2008 21:32
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address
> 
> Hello CFers,
> 
> I know this is OT, but I'll ask anyway. I was wondering if someone can
> help
> me with regex.
> 
> I am returning a query object after executing a cfpop.  On the query
> object,
> there is a column named 'From'.  The data string is formatted like:  "John
> Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] .   I would like to use regex to strip the data
> string and just get the email address.
> 
> Thanks in advance, everyone.
> 
> mike
> 
> 
> 

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RE: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address

[Adrian Lynch]

If that's always the format, no need for a RegEx, use ListLast(theString, "
").

Adrian

-Original Message-
From: Mike Francisco
Sent: 25 September 2008 21:32
To: cf-talk
Subject: OT- Regex Help- extracting email address

Hello CFers,

I know this is OT, but I'll ask anyway. I was wondering if someone can help
me with regex.

I am returning a query object after executing a cfpop.  On the query object,
there is a column named 'From'.  The data string is formatted like:  "John
Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] .   I would like to use regex to strip the data
string and just get the email address.

Thanks in advance, everyone.

mike


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OT- Regex Help- extracting email address

[Mike Francisco]

Hello CFers,

 

I know this is OT, but I'll ask anyway. I was wondering if someone can help
me with regex.

 

I am returning a query object after executing a cfpop.  On the query object,
there is a column named 'From'.  The data string is formatted like:  "John
Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] .   I would like to use regex to strip the data
string and just get the email address.

 

Thanks in advance, everyone.

 

mike



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Re: Regex help

[Sonny Savage]

Yeah... my solution has a '+' match on the space.  Glad you solved it!

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >This RegEx will tell you if there are any spaces between the parenthesis:
> >if\s*\(.*\s+.*\)\s*\{
> >
>
>
> I posted a solved post but don't see it yet.
>
> I can't use * because that flags it even if there's 0 spaces. I used + and
> it works.
>
> Thanks sonny!
>
> Will
>
> 

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Re: Regex help

[Will Tomlinson]

>This RegEx will tell you if there are any spaces between the parenthesis:
>if\s*\(.*\s+.*\)\s*\{
>


I posted a solved post but don't see it yet. 

I can't use * because that flags it even if there's 0 spaces. I used + and it 
works. 

Thanks sonny!

Will 

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Re: Regex help

[Sonny Savage]

It just occurred to me that the any pattern matches should be non-greedy for
matching accuracy:
if\s*\(.*?\s+.*?\)\s*\{

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Sonny Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This RegEx will tell you if there are any spaces between the parenthesis:
> if\s*\(.*\s+.*\)\s*\{
>
> Edward A Savage Jr - "Sonny"
> Senior Software Engineer
> Creditdiscovery, LLC
> "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." ~
> Sir Winston Churchill
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> I can do just one part, but if I try to make it an either/or with a pipe,
>> it throws me off. This works.
>>
>> 
>>
>> 
>>
>> #reFindNoCase(re, str)#
>>
>> How do I add the brackets and so it'll catch one or the other?
>>
>> Thanks much,
>> Will
>>
>> 

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Re: Regex help (Solved)

[Will Tomlinson]

Ok, my example was wrong anyway. lol!

I figured it out. This worked:





#reFindNoCase(re, str)# 

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Re: Regex help

[Sonny Savage]

This RegEx will tell you if there are any spaces between the parenthesis:
if\s*\(.*\s+.*\)\s*\{

Edward A Savage Jr - "Sonny"
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I can do just one part, but if I try to make it an either/or with a pipe,
> it throws me off. This works.
>
> 
>
> 
>
> #reFindNoCase(re, str)#
>
> How do I add the brackets and so it'll catch one or the other?
>
> Thanks much,
> Will
>
> 

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Re: Regex help

[Will Tomlinson]

I can do just one part, but if I try to make it an either/or with a pipe, it 
throws me off. This works. 





#reFindNoCase(re, str)#

How do I add the brackets and so it'll catch one or the other?

Thanks much,
Will 

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Regex help

[Will Tomlinson]

This SEEMED simple enough, but I can't quite make it work. Tried for the last 
30 minutes. 

The string cannot have any spaces in between the if( or the ){





#reFindNoCase(re, str)#

WHat am I doin wrong?

Thanks,
Will 

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Re: Complex RegEx help request

[Tom Chiverton]

On Monday 19 May 2008, Jeremy Prevost wrote:
> Firstname Lastname
> into this:
>  href="javascript:ColdFusion.Window.create('staffContact#FirstName##Lastname
>#','Contact%20#Firstname#%20#Lastname#',

refind() with 'returnsubmatches' enabled, and then use those array positions 
with mid() to pull out the two bits you want.

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Re: Complex RegEx help request

[Jeremy Prevost]

Thanks Bobby, I'll give that a shot.


On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bobby Hartsfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy, Here is how I do it in CF4em to replace things like [code]some
> code[/code]
>
> Loop the string, replacing the blocks with a marker and storing the name in
> an array (the array position would match the marker)
> Then you can loop the array, convert the names to links and put them back
> into their original places with replace(str, '**marker1**', newLink, 'all')
>
> You can download cf4em (http://cf4em.com/downloads) and view
> /inc/parsebbml.cfm for some working code.
>
> Specifically, check out how code blocks, url blocks, and encryption blocks
> are removed, modified and put back into place. You could probably do both at
> once and skip the array in your case.
>
> A regex for your case would look like: (.*?)
>
>
> ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.
> Bobby Hartsfield
> http://acoderslife.com
> http://cf4em.com
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jeremy Prevost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 5:43 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Complex RegEx help request
>
> Hi all. I'm hoping someone can help out with this problem I've run into.
>
> I'm trying to make our home grown CMS a bit easier to use for our
> editors and easier to maintain. The issue at hand involves how we code
> email addresses into the content. I have an even that pops up a new
> contact window (CFwindow) and takes a Firstname and Lastname
> parameter. From there when the form is filled out the model looks up
> the email address based on the firstname/lastname combo and that all
> works great. However, I now want to tweak the code just a bit and will
> need to do some interesting find/replace work on the db side...which
> isn't a huge deal but I'd rather avoid doing it again every time I
> need to make changes.
>
> My thought was to use a pseudo tag such as Firstname
> Lastname which would be really easy for our editors to use and
> I'd replace that pseudo tag at display time with the actual link to
> the cfwindow. That works great in my mind, but I'm having a heck of a
> time creating a RegEx that will do what I want.
>
> In summary, anyone have any pointers as to which direction I should go
> to turn this:
>
> Firstname Lastname
>
> into this:
>
>  href="javascript:ColdFusion.Window.create('staffContact#FirstName##Lastname#
> ','Contact%20#Firstname#%20#Lastname#','/index.cfm?event=page.comment&firstn
> ame=#firstname#&lastname=#lastname#',{center:true,height:400,width:600,modal
> :false,closable:true,draggable:true,resizable:true,center:true,initshow:true
> ,minheight:200,minwidth:200})">Email
> #Firstname# #Lastname#
>
> Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>
>
>
> 

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RE: Complex RegEx help request

[Bobby Hartsfield]

Hi Jeremy, Here is how I do it in CF4em to replace things like [code]some
code[/code]

Loop the string, replacing the blocks with a marker and storing the name in
an array (the array position would match the marker)
Then you can loop the array, convert the names to links and put them back
into their original places with replace(str, '**marker1**', newLink, 'all')

You can download cf4em (http://cf4em.com/downloads) and view
/inc/parsebbml.cfm for some working code.

Specifically, check out how code blocks, url blocks, and encryption blocks
are removed, modified and put back into place. You could probably do both at
once and skip the array in your case.

A regex for your case would look like: (.*?)


..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.
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http://cf4em.com


-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Prevost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 5:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Complex RegEx help request

Hi all. I'm hoping someone can help out with this problem I've run into.

I'm trying to make our home grown CMS a bit easier to use for our
editors and easier to maintain. The issue at hand involves how we code
email addresses into the content. I have an even that pops up a new
contact window (CFwindow) and takes a Firstname and Lastname
parameter. From there when the form is filled out the model looks up
the email address based on the firstname/lastname combo and that all
works great. However, I now want to tweak the code just a bit and will
need to do some interesting find/replace work on the db side...which
isn't a huge deal but I'd rather avoid doing it again every time I
need to make changes.

My thought was to use a pseudo tag such as Firstname
Lastname which would be really easy for our editors to use and
I'd replace that pseudo tag at display time with the actual link to
the cfwindow. That works great in my mind, but I'm having a heck of a
time creating a RegEx that will do what I want.

In summary, anyone have any pointers as to which direction I should go
to turn this:

Firstname Lastname

into this:

Email
#Firstname# #Lastname#

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Jeremy



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Complex RegEx help request

[Jeremy Prevost]

Hi all. I'm hoping someone can help out with this problem I've run into.

I'm trying to make our home grown CMS a bit easier to use for our
editors and easier to maintain. The issue at hand involves how we code
email addresses into the content. I have an even that pops up a new
contact window (CFwindow) and takes a Firstname and Lastname
parameter. From there when the form is filled out the model looks up
the email address based on the firstname/lastname combo and that all
works great. However, I now want to tweak the code just a bit and will
need to do some interesting find/replace work on the db side...which
isn't a huge deal but I'd rather avoid doing it again every time I
need to make changes.

My thought was to use a pseudo tag such as Firstname
Lastname which would be really easy for our editors to use and
I'd replace that pseudo tag at display time with the actual link to
the cfwindow. That works great in my mind, but I'm having a heck of a
time creating a RegEx that will do what I want.

In summary, anyone have any pointers as to which direction I should go
to turn this:

Firstname Lastname

into this:

Email
#Firstname# #Lastname#

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Jeremy

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Re: regex help

[Jeff Price]

LOL! And here I was thinking the ~ was some kind of special character! 
Sometimes if it looks like a tilde it's just a tilde :)

Thanks!

>That range matches all the characters in the ascii chart except the control 
>characters.  Same as saying give me all the Ascii characters from Ascii 32 
>(space) to Ascii 126 (_).  I thought it was a bit more restrictive than the 
>dot operator.


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Re: regex help

[Craigsell]

That range matches all the characters in the ascii chart except the control 
characters.  Same as saying give me all the Ascii characters from Ascii 32 
(space) to Ascii 126 (_).  I thought it was a bit more restrictive than the 
dot operator.

 In the [\w -~], the -w is actually redundant since \w stands for 
[a-zA-Z0-9].

Another improvement would be to account for variable spacers using 
reFindNoCase("",inputString, pos).

As far as I know, greediness is not restricted to CF but can be found in any 
regular expression. From what I've heard CF8 deals with regexp differently 
than CF7.  For example, I think CF8 will return an array of matches.

In looking at this again, I'd say it is greedy because of the [ -~]+ pattern 
(similar to using .+) .  I think using reFindNoCase("",inputString, pos) will force minimal 
matching but I'd have to run some tests with it to be sure.

Any regexp experts care to weigh in?  I don't use them enough to be an 
authority and would like to learn more 


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Re: regex help

[Jeff Price]

Two questions:

1) What does the -~ do inside the []? I haven't seen that syntax before or I'm 
incredibly rusty with my regex. 

2) Is your regex minimally matching? I had always thought CF was a greedy match?

Thanks,
Jeff

>Actually, please ignore my last message. I have got it to work:
>reFindNoCase("",inputString, pos)
>
>Thank you everybdoy for your help.
>
>Regards,
>
>cfcoder 

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Re: regex help

[cf coder]

Actually, please ignore my last message. I have got it to work:
reFindNoCase("",inputString, pos)

Thank you everybdoy for your help.

Regards,

cfcoder

> Thank you Jason, Craig and Bobby for your help which is greatly 
> appreciated. However this is not quite what I want. I do apologise for 
> changing my original requirement.
> 
> I'll try to explain.
> 
> I want to read the contents of all the .cfm files in a directory and 
> return all the href tags with the "productID=" text in the query 
> string, ex:
> test
> 
> When I did a search in the codebase for "productID=", I found there 
> were few  tags which looked like this:
> 
> 
> 
> I want the regular expression to be able to match the above example as 
> well.
> 
> If it is not too much of an inconvenience can you please send me the 
> revised code?
> 
> Regard,
> cfcoder
> 
> > EDIT:
> > 
> > The regex should be this one instead.  The one above would not 
> handle 
> > any thing between the href="" and the closing >. 
> > 
> (]*href=[> 
> '"](([^'"]*)?([^"']ProductID=?([^&"']*)[^'"]*))['"][^>]*>([^<]*)<\/a>) 
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Re: regex help

[cf coder]

Thank you Jason, Craig and Bobby for your help which is greatly appreciated. 
However this is not quite what I want. I do apologise for changing my original 
requirement.

I'll try to explain.

I want to read the contents of all the .cfm files in a directory and return all 
the href tags with the "productID=" text in the query string, ex:
test

When I did a search in the codebase for "productID=", I found there were few 
 tags which looked like this:



I want the regular expression to be able to match the above example as well.

If it is not too much of an inconvenience can you please send me the revised 
code?

Regard,
cfcoder

> EDIT:
> 
> The regex should be this one instead.  The one above would not handle 
> any thing between the href="" and the closing >. 
> 
(]*href=[> 
'"](([^'"]*)?([^"']ProductID=?([^&"']*)[^'"]*))['"][^>]*>([^<]*)<\/a>) 


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RE: regex help

[Bobby Hartsfield]

I wasn't very strict with ensuring that the string was found in 
tags... although it would be simple to add if you need that... I only made
sure that it was either &productid=NUMBER or ?productID=NUMBER (regardless
of case)

I just wanted to make sure that I got a simple solution posted before anyone
had the chance to fall for the inevitable reextract sales pitch that seems
to follow every regex question on this list these days. 


function freeFunction(str)
{
var tmp = '';
var tmpArr = arrayNew(1);

while(refindnocase(".*?(&|\?)productID=([0-9]{1,})[^0-9]", str))
{
str = rereplacenocase(str,
".*?(&|\?)productID=([0-9]{1,}).*?[^0-9]", "[**\2**]");
tmp = arrayappend(tmpArr, rereplacenocase(str,
"\[\*\*([0-9].*?)\*.*", "\1"));
}
return tmpArr;
} 






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Re: regex help

[Jason Morgan]

Hi here is a regex that should do the job.  It does a little more that you are 
asking for.  I felt like playing around with the regex.  

(]*href=['"](([^'"]*)?([^"']ProductID=?([^&"']*)[^'"]*))['"]>([^<]*)<\/a>)



I am link 1

I am link 2

I am link 3

I am link 4

I am link 5




Text

#text#
























Thanks, 
Jason Morgan. 

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Re: regex help

[Jason Morgan]

EDIT:

The regex should be this one instead.  The one above would not handle any thing 
between the href="" and the closing >. 

(]*href=['"](([^'"]*)?([^"']ProductID=?([^&"']*)[^'"]*))['"][^>]*>([^<]*)<\/a>)
 

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Re: regex help

[Craigsell]

Sorry -- you only wanted it if productid was in a query string.

Try this

reFindNoCase("",inputString, 
pos)


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Re: regex help

[Gerald Guido]

I use the QuickREx plugin for Eclipes. Very handy.  RegEx's make my brain
hurt.

http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/QuickREx/toc.html

There is a stand alone version

http://www.bastian-bergerhoff.com/eclipse/features/web/QuickREx/standalone.html



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Re: regex help

[Craigsell]

If tmp > 0, it's there!

reFindNoCase("",inputString, pos)

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Re: regex help

[cf coder]

pardon me saying this but it looks very complicated. I rather just write a 
regex that will do this effortlessley.

Regards,
cfcoder

>>>I need some help with regular expressions.
>
>What you need is the kind of requirement I made CF_REextract for.
>See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/REextract/testREextract.cfm 

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Re: regex help

[Claude Schneegans]

 >>I need some help with regular expressions.

What you need is the kind of requirement I made CF_REextract for.
See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/REextract/testREextract.cfm

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Re: regex help

[cf coder]

I would prefer the regular expression to do this. Can you show me how to do 
what you are suggesting please?

>If you don't manage to get what you're after. Just loop over the array and
>look for the string.
>
>Adrian
>
>Hello everybody,
>
>I need some help with regular expressions.
>
>I'm trying to write a reqular expression that will return all the links on a
>page that contain a string in the query string.
>
>I found a UDF on cflib that returns a list of all the anchor tags on a page
>but I want to only return all href tags that contain the word "ProductID" in
>the query string ex:
>test
>
>Here is the udf, that returns all the links on the page.
>
>function hrefsToList(inputString) {
>   var pos=1;
>   var tmp=0;
>   var linklist = "";
>   var delimiter = ",";
>   var endpos = "";
>
>   if(arrayLen(arguments) gte 2) delimiter = arguments[2];
>
>   while(1) {
>   tmp = reFindNoCase("]*>[^>]*", inputString, pos);
>   if(tmp) {
>   pos = tmp;
>   endpos = findNoCase("", inputString, pos)+4;
>   linkList = listAppend(linkList, mid(inputString, pos, 
> endpos-pos),
>delimiter);
>   pos = endpos;
>   }
>   else break;
>   }
>
>   return linkList;
>}
>
>Can someone please show me how to change the modify expression to return
>what I've explained above please?
>
>Thanks,
>cfcoder 

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RE: regex help

[Adrian Lynch]

If you don't manage to get what you're after. Just loop over the array and
look for the string.

Adrian

-Original Message-
From: cf coder
Sent: 15 February 2008 17:11
To: CF-Talk
Subject: regex help


Hello everybody,

I need some help with regular expressions.

I'm trying to write a reqular expression that will return all the links on a
page that contain a string in the query string.

I found a UDF on cflib that returns a list of all the anchor tags on a page
but I want to only return all href tags that contain the word "ProductID" in
the query string ex:
test

Here is the udf, that returns all the links on the page.

function hrefsToList(inputString) {
var pos=1;
var tmp=0;
var linklist = "";
var delimiter = ",";
var endpos = "";

if(arrayLen(arguments) gte 2) delimiter = arguments[2];

while(1) {
tmp = reFindNoCase("]*>[^>]*", inputString, pos);
if(tmp) {
pos = tmp;
endpos = findNoCase("", inputString, pos)+4;
linkList = listAppend(linkList, mid(inputString, pos, 
endpos-pos),
delimiter);
pos = endpos;
}
else break;
}

return linkList;
}

Can someone please show me how to change the modify expression to return
what I've explained above please?

Thanks,
cfcoder


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regex help

[cf coder]

Hello everybody,

I need some help with regular expressions.

I'm trying to write a reqular expression that will return all the links on a 
page that contain a string in the query string.

I found a UDF on cflib that returns a list of all the anchor tags on a page but 
I want to only return all href tags that contain the word "ProductID" in the 
query string ex:
test

Here is the udf, that returns all the links on the page.

function hrefsToList(inputString) {
var pos=1;
var tmp=0;
var linklist = "";
var delimiter = ",";
var endpos = "";

if(arrayLen(arguments) gte 2) delimiter = arguments[2];

while(1) {
tmp = reFindNoCase("]*>[^>]*", inputString, pos);
if(tmp) {
pos = tmp;
endpos = findNoCase("", inputString, pos)+4;
linkList = listAppend(linkList, mid(inputString, pos, 
endpos-pos), delimiter);
pos = endpos;
}
else break;
}

return linkList;
}

Can someone please show me how to change the modify expression to return what 
I've explained above please?

Thanks,
cfcoder 

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RE: Bad Word Regex Help

[Mark Henderson]

>The only thing I'm not sure is if it will match in the case of the
>beginning and the end of the string.
>Better make sure, try : "(^|[^a-zA-Z])#wordKey#([^a-zA-Z]|$)"

Awesome, thanks! Pardon my previous inept description, as I know the
carrot means 'not'.

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Re: Bad Word Regex Help

[Claude Schneegans]

 >>the above regex seems to be checking for any alpha characters either 
before or
after the bad word

It's the opposite: it is checking for one character which is NOT alpha, 
before AND after.
The only thing I'm not sure is if it will match in the case of the 
beginning and the end of the string.
Better make sure, try : "(^|[^a-zA-Z])#wordKey#([^a-zA-Z]|$)"

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RE: Bad Word Regex Help

[Mark Henderson]

Hi Claude,

Thanks for the help.

>How about (non tested)
>reReplaceNoCase(attributes.replacedString,
>"([^a-zA-Z])#wordKey#([^a-zA-Z]), "\1**CENSORED**\2", "all")>
>

I tried something similar earlier, and tested your suggestion just now:

reReplaceNoCase(attributes.replacedString,"([^a-zA-Z])#wordKey#([^a-zA-Z
])", "\1**CENSORED**\2", "all")>

 but then if there is a space either before or after the bad word, it
is ignored. At least I think that's what is happening, since the above
regex seems to be checking for any alpha characters either before or
after the bad word, but I could be wrong. At any rate, the bad words are
still getting through. 

> but be aware that any one really will to use badwords will just
have
>to lightly alter the spelling.
 
Yep, gotcha.  This is just one of several steps in place and I am
constantly going to be adding to the bad word list, along with the
standard IP check, hidden form fields etc which are already in place.


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Re: Bad Word Regex Help

[Claude Schneegans]

 >>Normally I would just use boundaries (\b) for this, but since the
current platform is running CF5

How about (non tested)
reReplaceNoCase(attributes.replacedString,  
"([^a-zA-Z])#wordKey#([^a-zA-Z]), "\1**CENSORED**\2", "all")>

 but be aware that any one really will to use badwords will just have 
to lightly alter the spelling.

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Bad Word Regex Help

[Mark Henderson]

Normally I would just use boundaries (\b) for this, but since the
current platform is running CF5, that's not an option. For all you regex
people out there, all I want to do is test a string for the existence of
any bad words. 



  


Which works ok, but if the word is part of another larger word, I would
like it to be left alone, and currently it is not. Any ideas? TIA.

Mark


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Re: CF5 Regex Help

[Ben Doom]

loop list=yourtext delimiter=chr(10) index = i
rereplace(i, "(|)+(.?)(|)+.*", "\2")
/loop

Not tested, and there is probably a better way.  If this were brought up 
on CF-RegEx, I think I can guarantee a lively (and nostalgic) discussion 
of CF5 workarounds.

--Ben "the out-of-practice RegEx Ninja" Doom

Jim McAtee wrote:
> I need to run this on our CF5 server:  I have some large text fields 
> containing HTML, most of which have some variation of the following HTML 
> snippet at the beginning:
> 
> Some text More text and HTML follows...
> Some more text More text and HTML follows...
> Yet some more text More text and HTML follows...
> 
> I need a regex that will let me extract and remove the leading text so 
> that it can be stored in a separate column. 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: CF5 Regex Help

[Claude Schneegans]

 >>I need a regex that will let me extract and remove the leading text

Hi, this is a perfect job for CF_REextract.
See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/REextract/testREextract.cfm

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CF5 Regex Help

[Jim McAtee]

I need to run this on our CF5 server:  I have some large text fields 
containing HTML, most of which have some variation of the following HTML 
snippet at the beginning:

Some text More text and HTML follows...
Some more text More text and HTML follows...
Yet some more text More text and HTML follows...

I need a regex that will let me extract and remove the leading text so 
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RE: Regex help with search strings

[Mark Henderson]

Bobby Hartsfield wrote:
> My brother's name is Justin William Eugene Mckinney III. That 
> might throw you for a loop. It will really throw you for a 
> loop when it is "Justin William Eugene Mckinney III PHD"
> Or
> "Dr. Justin William Eugene Mckinney III"

Hi Bobby

Yep, I considered this type of thing and you are right, so for better or
worse on the search box view I am advising them to enter first and last
names only. And before the search is executed I am also doing:



And if it is greater than 1 I shoot them back with an error message
telling them they entered too many names. I'm also checking for numbers
and other characters.

> Simply taking listfirst() and listlast() delimited by a space 
> won't always give you the result you want... but when it IS a 
> good idea... you just do...
> 
>   listlast(name, " ") />

This is what I'm going with since it is simple and effective enough for
my requirements. Thanks!

then Jide Aliu wrote
> From what you're saying, you probably might not need Regex. 
> How about GetToken? 
> 
> 
> 
>   var2 = GetToken(trim(SearchField), 2, " ")>
> 
> Am I barking up the wrong tree?

Jide, no I don't think you are, but when I try this it returns a full
set of results in the database. It could be the way my search query
logic is ordered, since when I output var1 and var2, they appear to be
correct. However, I had some success with listfind and also with Bobby's
suggestion above (which is what I'm using), so I didn't delve into it
too much.

I'm still getting some delay on the HOF mail delivery, so thanks to all
who replied.

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RE: Regex help with search strings

[Bobby Hartsfield]

My brother's name is Justin William Eugene Mckinney III. That might throw
you for a loop. It will really throw you for a loop when it is 
"Justin William Eugene Mckinney III PHD"
Or
"Dr. Justin William Eugene Mckinney III"

Simply taking listfirst() and listlast() delimited by a space won't always
give you the result you want... but when it IS a good idea... you just do...




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-Original Message-
From: Mark Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 6:19 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Regex help with search strings

Hi
 
I have a search box that currently contains only one field. I normally have
one input for first name, one for lat name and so on, which makes the task
of searching somewhat easier. However, in this scenario that is not the
case. So, what I want to do is split the search term entered into distinct
variables.
 
An example - let's say someone enters "joe blogs" in the search field
(without quotes). I then want to be able to parse it so that I have one
variable for "joe" and another for "blogs", which I can then search on since
the database is organised into first_name, last_name, maiden_name, email,
etc. The criteria for this will be the space between the names.
This looks like a case for regular expressions. I know how to use REFind to
check for the space, but that's all so far (I've spent some time on this,
and even read the docs!). Can someone help me here please? 
 
TIA

Regards

Mark Henderson
Web Designer
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RE: Regex help with search strings

[Mark Henderson]

> From: Ben Doom
> Sent: Friday, 27 July 2007 2:17 a.m.
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Regex help with search strings
> 
> You could do this with a regex but it would be easier and 
> more efficient to do it with listfind() using a space as the 
> delimiter.

Hi Ben. 

I worked it out using a regex but I see why you recommend using listfind
given the logic required in the search query when using more than one
variable. So I took your advice and read:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt210.ht
m#4695870

... and I have it working with that now. Thanks for the tip.

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RE: Regex help with search strings

[Mark Henderson]

From: Mark Henderson 
> Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 10:19 a.m.
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Regex help with search strings
> 
> Hi
>  
> I have a search box that currently contains only one field. I 
> normally have one input for first name, one for lat name and 
> so on, which makes the task of searching somewhat easier. 
> However, in this scenario that is not the case. So, what I 
> want to do is split the search term entered into distinct variables.
>  
> An example - let's say someone enters "joe blogs" in the 
> search field (without quotes). I then want to be able to 
> parse it so that I have one variable for "joe" and another 
> for "blogs", which I can then search on since the database is 
> organised into first_name, last_name, maiden_name, email, 
> etc. The criteria for this will be the space between the names.
> This looks like a case for regular expressions. I know how to 
> use REFind to check for the space, but that's all so far 
> (I've spent some time on this, and even read the docs!). Can 
> someone help me here please? 

For some reason Outlook decided to try and send my previous post as HTML
when I have HOF clearly set in my address book to use plain text - my
apologies for that. Anyway, something like the following seems to work:




But if there is something else I can or should be doing when checking
the field please let me know.

Mark

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Re: Regex help with search strings

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>From what you're saying, you probably might not need Regex. How about 
>GetToken? 






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Regex help with search strings

[Mark Henderson]

Hi
 
I have a search box that currently contains only one field. I normally
have one input for first name, one for lat name and so on, which makes
the task of searching somewhat easier. However, in this scenario that is
not the case. So, what I want to do is split the search term entered
into distinct variables.
 
An example - let's say someone enters "joe blogs" in the search field
(without quotes). I then want to be able to parse it so that I have one
variable for "joe" and another for "blogs", which I can then search on
since the database is organised into first_name, last_name, maiden_name,
email, etc. The criteria for this will be the space between the names.
This looks like a case for regular expressions. I know how to use REFind
to check for the space, but that's all so far (I've spent some time on
this, and even read the docs!). Can someone help me here please? 
 
TIA

Regards

Mark Henderson
Web Designer
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   

205 Main Street
PO Box 143, Gore
Southland 9700
Phone: (03) 203 
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Re: Regex help with search strings

[Ben Doom]

You could do this with a regex but it would be easier and more efficient 
to do it with listfind() using a space as the delimiter.

--Ben Doom

Mark Henderson wrote:
> Hi
>  
> I have a search box that currently contains only one field. I normally
> have one input for first name, one for lat name and so on, which makes
> the task of searching somewhat easier. However, in this scenario that is
> not the case. So, what I want to do is split the search term entered
> into distinct variables.
>  
> An example - let's say someone enters "joe blogs" in the search field
> (without quotes). I then want to be able to parse it so that I have one
> variable for "joe" and another for "blogs", which I can then search on
> since the database is organised into first_name, last_name, maiden_name,
> email, etc. The criteria for this will be the space between the names.
> This looks like a case for regular expressions. I know how to use REFind
> to check for the space, but that's all so far (I've spent some time on
> this, and even read the docs!). Can someone help me here please? 
>  
> TIA
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark Henderson
> Web Designer
> mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
> 
> 205 Main Street
> PO Box 143, Gore
> Southland 9700
> Phone: (03) 203 
> Fax: (03) 203 9900
> 
> 
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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Bobby Hartsfield]

Haha! Beer may have played a part in that article... oh and I accept the beer. 
;-)

Cheers!

-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 5:01 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Thanks Bobby, I owe you a beer. And not just for this but for
http://www.acoderslife.com/news/index.cfm?storyid=7 too!!

Will

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 21:21
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Sorry, Should have said that you DO still have to: 
order by length(artist) desc

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Or a couple loops

 





#artist#", "all") /> 

That did the trick for me.

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

I don't know what I was thinking but that wont work either. Say you had
Bobby and Bobby Hartsfield

If you replaced Bobby Hartsfield with a link then Bobby... the code would
replace the Bobby within Bobby Hartsfield

You will need to order the names by length descending to make sure the
longer names are taken care of first but you will also need to use a regular
expression to replace the strings only if they are NOT within
(#artist#) already


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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Yes, Do it in your query. Try this...

Select artist
>From tablename
Order by length(artist)


-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

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Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47
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Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")















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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

Thanks Bobby, I owe you a beer. And not just for this but for
http://www.acoderslife.com/news/index.cfm?storyid=7 too!!

Will

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 21:21
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Sorry, Should have said that you DO still have to: 
order by length(artist) desc

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Or a couple loops

 





#artist#", "all") /> 

That did the trick for me.

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

I don't know what I was thinking but that wont work either. Say you had
Bobby and Bobby Hartsfield

If you replaced Bobby Hartsfield with a link then Bobby... the code would
replace the Bobby within Bobby Hartsfield

You will need to order the names by length descending to make sure the
longer names are taken care of first but you will also need to use a regular
expression to replace the strings only if they are NOT within
(#artist#) already


-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Yes, Do it in your query. Try this...

Select artist
>From tablename
Order by length(artist)


-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47
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Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")













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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Bobby Hartsfield]

Sorry, Should have said that you DO still have to: 
order by length(artist) desc

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Or a couple loops








#artist#", "all") />


That did the trick for me.

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

I don’t know what I was thinking but that wont work either. Say you had
Bobby and Bobby Hartsfield

If you replaced Bobby Hartsfield with a link then Bobby... the code would
replace the Bobby within Bobby Hartsfield

You will need to order the names by length descending to make sure the
longer names are taken care of first but you will also need to use a regular
expression to replace the strings only if they are NOT within
(#artist#) already


-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Yes, Do it in your query. Try this...

Select artist
>From tablename
Order by length(artist)


-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")











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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

That's sweet Bobby - seems to work a treat. Thanks very much.

Will 


-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 20:43
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Or a couple loops

 





#artist#", "all") /> 

That did the trick for me.

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

I don't know what I was thinking but that wont work either. Say you had
Bobby and Bobby Hartsfield

If you replaced Bobby Hartsfield with a link then Bobby... the code would
replace the Bobby within Bobby Hartsfield

You will need to order the names by length descending to make sure the
longer names are taken care of first but you will also need to use a regular
expression to replace the strings only if they are NOT within
(#artist#) already


-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Yes, Do it in your query. Try this...

Select artist
>From tablename
Order by length(artist)


-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

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Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")











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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

Good plan. I reckon that will work. Now to play with the regex...

Cheers

w

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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 20:34
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

I don't know what I was thinking but that wont work either. Say you had
Bobby and Bobby Hartsfield

If you replaced Bobby Hartsfield with a link then Bobby... the code would
replace the Bobby within Bobby Hartsfield

You will need to order the names by length descending to make sure the
longer names are taken care of first but you will also need to use a regular
expression to replace the strings only if they are NOT within
(#artist#) already


-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Yes, Do it in your query. Try this...

Select artist
>From tablename
Order by length(artist)


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From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47
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Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")









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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Bobby Hartsfield]

Or a couple loops








#artist#", "all") />


That did the trick for me.

-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

I don’t know what I was thinking but that wont work either. Say you had
Bobby and Bobby Hartsfield

If you replaced Bobby Hartsfield with a link then Bobby... the code would
replace the Bobby within Bobby Hartsfield

You will need to order the names by length descending to make sure the
longer names are taken care of first but you will also need to use a regular
expression to replace the strings only if they are NOT within
(#artist#) already


-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Yes, Do it in your query. Try this...

Select artist
>From tablename
Order by length(artist)


-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")









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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Bobby Hartsfield]

I don’t know what I was thinking but that wont work either. Say you had
Bobby and Bobby Hartsfield

If you replaced Bobby Hartsfield with a link then Bobby... the code would
replace the Bobby within Bobby Hartsfield

You will need to order the names by length descending to make sure the
longer names are taken care of first but you will also need to use a regular
expression to replace the strings only if they are NOT within
(#artist#) already


-Original Message-
From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Yes, Do it in your query. Try this...

Select artist
>From tablename
Order by length(artist)


-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")







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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Bobby Hartsfield]

Yes, Do it in your query. Try this...

Select artist
>From tablename
Order by length(artist)


-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")





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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

Yes, I'm in agreement. I wondered if a regex was the answer here, but I have
no idea.

Interestingly, if I reverse the order of the query I still get the same
result, which is odd and not what I'd expect. I did a cfdump of the query to
check it is ordered correctly.

I'm beginning to think an alternative approach might be in order here...

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From: Leitch, Oblio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 14:48
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Well, I've got a couple of comments, for what they're worth.  First, you're
not using RegEx.  Next, it appears that what you're doing here:


 

 #artist#",   "ALL")>


is you have two queries, one of the event(s), one grabbing a list of
artists.  Are you sorting the artists?  It looks to me like when you loop
over the artists, you're simply getting "John Smith" first.  So, you have a
statement like "change all occurrences of 'John Smith'", which it does.  On
the next pass, your statement reads "change all occurrences of 'John Smith &
Sons'", but it doesn't find any.

Now, using this method, you could easily run into other problems.  Say you
sort the artists query to avoid the above.  What happens when (reverse
alphabetically) you've just replaced some string "Smith"?
Then, when it gets to "J", it will fail both "John Smith" and "John Smith &
Sons".

Trying to do this programmatically will be very challenging and you might
not like the result.

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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

Hi Bobby,

Out of interest, how would I reorder by length? In the query? MySQL 4.1.7

Thanks

Will

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Sent: 27 April 2007 13:47
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Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Leitch, Oblio]

Well, I've got a couple of comments, for what they're worth.  First,
you're not using RegEx.  Next, it appears that what you're doing here:


 

 #artist#",   "ALL")>


is you have two queries, one of the event(s), one grabbing a list of
artists.  Are you sorting the artists?  It looks to me like when you
loop over the artists, you're simply getting "John Smith" first.  So,
you have a statement like "change all occurrences of 'John Smith'",
which it does.  On the next pass, your statement reads "change all
occurrences of 'John Smith & Sons'", but it doesn't find any.

Now, using this method, you could easily run into other problems.  Say
you sort the artists query to avoid the above.  What happens when
(reverse alphabetically) you've just replaced some string "Smith"?
Then, when it gets to "J", it will fail both "John Smith" and "John
Smith & Sons".

Trying to do this programmatically will be very challenging and you
might not like the result.

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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Gaulin, Mark]

I think this is a good approach too, but it will get complicated because
you have to avoid matching text inside an existing already-hyperlinked
bit of text.  I suspect that this is less of a regex problem and the
solution will require searching for strings "manually", but at least the
solution can be described and wil work, so that's something.

Mark

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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 8:47 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")

-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 5:27 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
 
I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which
may or may not contain one or more of the names.
 
I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find
it, make it a hyperlink.
 
So far I have this:
 

 

 #artist#",
"ALL")> 
 
Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or
contain the same words - for example
 
John Smith
John Smith & Sons
 
If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the
John Smith part but not the rest.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks
 
will
 






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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

Sure. But it still wouldn't work. :)

-Original Message-
From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 13:56
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

It does really look like your using Regex's.  Since you're looking for strings 
essentially, can't you just use ReplaceNoCase?

On 4/27/07, Will Swain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
>
> I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string 
> which may or may not contain one or more of the names.
>
> I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I 
> find it, make it a hyperlink.
>
> So far I have this:
>
> 
>
> 
>   href='profiles.cfm?e=#profileID#' target='artistWin'>#artist#", 
> "ALL")> 
>
> Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or 
> contain the same words - for example
>
> John Smith
> John Smith & Sons
>
> If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight 
> the John Smith part but not the rest.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> will
>
>
>
> 



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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

Hi James,

See my previous reply. They aren't delimited by anything in particular.

Thanks.

will

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From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 14:27
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Are the names delimited by something (like commas) or just strung together?

On 4/27/07, Will Swain  wrote:
> Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
>
> I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string 
> which may or may not contain one or more of the names.
>
> I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I 
> find it, make it a hyperlink.
>
> So far I have this:
>
> 
>
> 
>   href='profiles.cfm?e=#profileID#' target='artistWin'>#artist#", 
> "ALL")> 
>
> Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or 
> contain the same words - for example
>
> John Smith
> John Smith & Sons
>
> If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight 
> the John Smith part but not the rest.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> will
>
>
>
> 



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Re: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[James Holmes]

Are the names delimited by something (like commas) or just strung together?

On 4/27/07, Will Swain  wrote:
> Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
>
> I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which may
> or may not contain one or more of the names.
>
> I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find it,
> make it a hyperlink.
>
> So far I have this:
>
> 
>
> 
>   href='profiles.cfm?e=#profileID#' target='artistWin'>#artist#", "ALL")>
> 
>
> Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or
> contain the same words - for example
>
> John Smith
> John Smith & Sons
>
> If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the John
> Smith part but not the rest.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> will
>
>
>
> 

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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

No, sadly. It's just a field of text, sometimes the entries (names) are
seperated by commas, sometimes by new lines, but not everything is a name.

A bit of background - basically, this is a text description about an event,
and includes the names of the artists performing. I'm trying to implement a
function so that the client can add profiles about artists, and if the
artist has a profile this is reached by a link to a new window containing
more info, an image etc..

For example typical content in the works_string might look like:

David Rees-Williams Trio

A Taste of France: Jazz Transcriptions of the Classics.

But the only part that might need to be transformed to a link would be David
Rees-Williams Trio. That's fine, and the code I wrote can do that. However,
you might also have a profile for David Rees-Williams, so the code needs to
be clever enough to recognise that, and this is where the problem lies.

If I was building this from scratch I'd change the way the data is stored,
so that each artist was a separate entry in the db, and then it would be an
easy task. But I'm not and that's not really an option.

Thanks

Will

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From: Gaulin, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 27 April 2007 13:27
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Is there a delimited in the list of names (work_string), something that you
can include in your reg ex to "anchor" it to an entire entry? 
Mark

-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 5:27 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
 
I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which may
or may not contain one or more of the names.
 
I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find it,
make it a hyperlink.
 
So far I have this:
 

 

 #artist#", "ALL")>

 
Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or
contain the same words - for example
 
John Smith
John Smith & Sons
 
If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the John
Smith part but not the rest.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks
 
will
 






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Re: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

that should be "It doesn't really look like your using Regex's"

On 4/27/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It does really look like your using Regex's.  Since you're looking for
> strings essentially, can't you just use ReplaceNoCase?
>
> On 4/27/07, Will Swain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
> >
> > I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which may
> > or may not contain one or more of the names.
> >
> > I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find it,
> > make it a hyperlink.
> >
> > So far I have this:
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >   > href='profiles.cfm?e=#profileID#' target='artistWin'>#artist#", "ALL")>
> > 
> >
> > Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or
> > contain the same words - for example
> >
> > John Smith
> > John Smith & Sons
> >
> > If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the John
> > Smith part but not the rest.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > will
> >
> >
> >
> > 

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Re: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

It does really look like your using Regex's.  Since you're looking for
strings essentially, can't you just use ReplaceNoCase?

On 4/27/07, Will Swain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
>
> I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which may
> or may not contain one or more of the names.
>
> I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find it,
> make it a hyperlink.
>
> So far I have this:
>
> 
>
> 
>   href='profiles.cfm?e=#profileID#' target='artistWin'>#artist#", "ALL")>
> 
>
> Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or
> contain the same words - for example
>
> John Smith
> John Smith & Sons
>
> If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the John
> Smith part but not the rest.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> will
>
>
>
> 

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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Bobby Hartsfield]

Reorder by length so the longer names come first. Also, I think you only
need replace(works_string, artist, "#artist#", "all")

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Subject: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
 
I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which may
or may not contain one or more of the names.
 
I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find it,
make it a hyperlink.
 
So far I have this:
 

 

 #artist#", "ALL")>

 
Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or
contain the same words - for example
 
John Smith
John Smith & Sons
 
If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the John
Smith part but not the rest.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks
 
will
 




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RE: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Gaulin, Mark]

Is there a delimited in the list of names (work_string), something that
you can include in your reg ex to "anchor" it to an entire entry? 
Mark

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From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Subject: Regex help looking for a name in a string.

Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
 
I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which
may or may not contain one or more of the names.
 
I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find
it, make it a hyperlink.
 
So far I have this:
 

 

 #artist#",
"ALL")> 
 
Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or
contain the same words - for example
 
John Smith
John Smith & Sons
 
If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the
John Smith part but not the rest.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks
 
will
 




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Regex help looking for a name in a string.

[Will Swain]

Ok, no doubt this is an easy RegEx question, but not for me.
 
I have two queries. One returns a set of names, the other a string which may
or may not contain one or more of the names.
 
I want to check for the existence of a name in the string, and if I find it,
make it a hyperlink.
 
So far I have this:
 

 

 #artist#", "ALL")>

 
Which works in a limited sense but stumbles where names are similar or
contain the same words - for example
 
John Smith
John Smith & Sons
 
If the string contained John Smith & Sons, the code would highlight the John
Smith part but not the rest.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks
 
will
 


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RE: RegEx help

[Mark Leder]

Thanks to all, Gareth's solution works great.  Though I want to study Ben's
more (one first glance I got bug-eyed looking at it).

Thanks,

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RE: RegEx help

[Ben Nadel]

I like Gareth solution better than mine. ListFirst is way more straight
forward than a RegExp. 

..
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listFirst("/level-1/2nd-level/index.cfm","/") maybe?

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Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: RegEx help


I'm really not very good at this, so I'm grateful for any help.  I've
been
using one of those regex editors, but I just can't seem to get my head
around the way it's used (regEx buddy).

What I want to do is take a URL string, such as
"/level-1/2nd-level/index.cfm" and just keep the string which is between
the
first set of "/" ("level-1" no quotes).  How would this be written?

Thanks,

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RE: RegEx help

[Ben Nadel]

 

This puts the first "directory" (level-1) into the first group
reference. Then it replaces the entire string with that group reference.


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From: Mark Leder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Subject: RegEx help

I'm really not very good at this, so I'm grateful for any help.  I've
been using one of those regex editors, but I just can't seem to get my
head around the way it's used (regEx buddy).

What I want to do is take a URL string, such as
"/level-1/2nd-level/index.cfm" and just keep the string which is between
the first set of "/" ("level-1" no quotes).  How would this be written?

Thanks,

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Re: RegEx help

[Gareth Hughes]

listFirst("/level-1/2nd-level/index.cfm","/") maybe?

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Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: RegEx help


I'm really not very good at this, so I'm grateful for any help.  I've been
using one of those regex editors, but I just can't seem to get my head
around the way it's used (regEx buddy).

What I want to do is take a URL string, such as
"/level-1/2nd-level/index.cfm" and just keep the string which is between the
first set of "/" ("level-1" no quotes).  How would this be written?

Thanks,

Mark






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RegEx help

[Mark Leder]

I'm really not very good at this, so I'm grateful for any help.  I've been
using one of those regex editors, but I just can't seem to get my head
around the way it's used (regEx buddy).

What I want to do is take a URL string, such as
"/level-1/2nd-level/index.cfm" and just keep the string which is between the
first set of "/" ("level-1" no quotes).  How would this be written?

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RE: Regex Help

[Steve LaBadie]

Ben,

Are you saying that I should be using functions like REFind(),
REReplace(), etc as apposed to using the cfinput validation?

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Re: Regex Help

[Ben Doom]

I'm pretty sure that IE6's JS engine does not correctly handle 
lookaheads.  IIRC, rather than performing an actual lookahead, it goes 
ahead and eats the characters.

Your best bet with this might be to check length with JS (cfform) and do 
the rest of the checking serverside.

--Ben Doom

Steve LaBadie wrote:
> I get an alert box that appears that says "error in password text"
> 
> 
> 
> Steve LaBadie, Web Manager
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> 200 Prospect St.
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> 
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RE: Regex Help

[Steve LaBadie]

I get an alert box that appears that says "error in password text"



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RE: Regex Help

[Steve Brownlee]

What happens in IE?  It's not the RegEx because that's compiled long
before you view the results in the browser, so I'm going with Ben's
previous post that it's some other factor.  Something in Javascript
perhaps.  Describe what happens in IE.


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Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:30 AM
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Subject: RE: Regex Help

Steve,

I doubled the "#" in the code and it worked in Firefox, but does not
work in IE6 Why would that be?

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Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:13 AM
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Steve,

As for the CFML construct not found message, I'm going out on a limb and
guessing it's because you have the pound sign in the regular expression.
Somehow that's messing up a matching set of pound signs for CFML
parsing.  Check your code around that statement and see where else
you're using the pound signs.  Also check that if you have this pattern
inside a CFOUTPUT statement, then you'll need to escape it with the
double ##.


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RE: Regex Help

[Steve LaBadie]

Steve,

I doubled the "#" in the code and it worked in Firefox, but does not
work in IE6 Why would that be?

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Subject: RE: Regex Help

Steve,

As for the CFML construct not found message, I'm going out on a limb and
guessing it's because you have the pound sign in the regular expression.
Somehow that's messing up a matching set of pound signs for CFML
parsing.  Check your code around that statement and see where else
you're using the pound signs.  Also check that if you have this pattern
inside a CFOUTPUT statement, then you'll need to escape it with the
double ##.


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RE: Regex Help

[Steve Brownlee]

Steve,

As for the CFML construct not found message, I'm going out on a limb and
guessing it's because you have the pound sign in the regular expression.
Somehow that's messing up a matching set of pound signs for CFML
parsing.  Check your code around that statement and see where else
you're using the pound signs.  Also check that if you have this pattern
inside a CFOUTPUT statement, then you'll need to escape it with the
double ##.


Steve Brownlee
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From: Steve LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:29 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Regex Help

I have been playing around with some regex patterns and have run into a
snag.  One issue the regex works differently in IE6 and Firefox. I
didn't know the regex would behave differently in these browsers. The
main issue is validating the use of character class (@#$^_*).  Do I need
to escape these? I have tried several ways of setting up the regex. I
get an "Invalid CFML construct found" error.

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[
@#$^_*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(?!.*s).{8,127}$

(?=^.{8,127}$)(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])([EMAIL PROTECTED]).*$

Any guidance would be appreciated - Also can anyone recommend specific
books on how to create and understand them better?

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RE: Regex Help

[Steve LaBadie]

Steve,

I still get an invalid token error

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RE: Regex Help

[Steve LaBadie]

The only thing I am using JS for is to compare that the passwords match.
I am using CFFORM & CFINPUT.






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RE: Regex Help

[Steve Brownlee]

Steve,

I think this is the pattern you're looking for.

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?=.*[\$|@|#|\^|_|\*]).{
8,127}

If you include the following lookahead

(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])

Then that basically negates the special characters pattern because it's
saying "none of the characters in the string should be
non-alphanumeric". 

Hope that helps.


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From: Steve LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Regex Help

Bobby,

I get an "invalid token | found" error.

To answer your question my match is predicated on one of these
characters (@#$^_*) being present.

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9@|#|\$|\
^|_|\*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$


^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[
@|#|\$|\^|_|\*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$

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Re: Regex Help

[Ben Doom]

Since you say that it behaves differently in IE vs FF, does that mean 
that you are writing these in JavaScript?  Are they being passed in a 
CFForm tag, or sent directly?  Are you double-pounding (##) as necessary 
to escape the pound sign in a CFOUTPUT block?

--Ben Doom

Steve LaBadie wrote:
> Bobby,
> 
> I get an "invalid token | found" error.
> 
> To answer your question my match is predicated on one of these
> characters (@#$^_*) being present.
> 
> ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9@|#|\$|\
> ^|_|\*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$
> 
> 
> ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[
> @|#|\$|\^|_|\*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$

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RE: Regex Help

[Steve LaBadie]

Bobby,

I get an "invalid token | found" error.

To answer your question my match is predicated on one of these
characters (@#$^_*) being present.

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9@|#|\$|\
^|_|\*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$


^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[
@|#|\$|\^|_|\*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$

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RE: Regex Help

[Bobby Hartsfield]

> All of those will need to be escaped when literally trying to match them
> + * ? . [ ^ $ ( ) { | \

All of THESE not those :-)

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You will need to escape SOME of them.

All of those will need to be escaped when literally trying to match them
+ * ? . [ ^ $ ( ) { | \

There is also a [:punct:] that matches all of these characters
! ' # S % & ` ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ / ] ^ _ { | } ~

Are you trying to match the EXACT pattern of @#$^_* or just any of them?

To match the sequence:
@#\$\^_\*

To match just 1 of them
@|#|\$|\^|_|\*

As for books, Ben Forta's Teach yourself regular expressions in 10 minutes
is a quick, easy to follow crash course as well as decent reference when
your mind draws a blank.


-Original Message-
From: Steve LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:29 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Regex Help

I have been playing around with some regex patterns and have run into a
snag.  One issue the regex works differently in IE6 and Firefox. I
didn't know the regex would behave differently in these browsers. The
main issue is validating the use of character class (@#$^_*).  Do I need
to escape these? I have tried several ways of setting up the regex. I
get an "Invalid CFML construct found" error.

 

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[
@#$^_*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$

 

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(?!.*s).{8,127}$

 

(?=^.{8,127}$)(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])([EMAIL PROTECTED]).*$

 

 

Any guidance would be appreciated - Also can anyone recommend specific
books on how to create and understand them better?

 

 

Steve LaBadie, Web Manager
East Stroudsburg University
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RE: Regex Help

[Bobby Hartsfield]

You will need to escape SOME of them.

All of those will need to be escaped when literally trying to match them
+ * ? . [ ^ $ ( ) { | \

There is also a [:punct:] that matches all of these characters
! ' # S % & ` ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ / ] ^ _ { | } ~

Are you trying to match the EXACT pattern of @#$^_* or just any of them?

To match the sequence:
@#\$\^_\*

To match just 1 of them
@|#|\$|\^|_|\*

As for books, Ben Forta's Teach yourself regular expressions in 10 minutes
is a quick, easy to follow crash course as well as decent reference when
your mind draws a blank.


-Original Message-
From: Steve LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 8:29 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Regex Help

I have been playing around with some regex patterns and have run into a
snag.  One issue the regex works differently in IE6 and Firefox. I
didn't know the regex would behave differently in these browsers. The
main issue is validating the use of character class (@#$^_*).  Do I need
to escape these? I have tried several ways of setting up the regex. I
get an "Invalid CFML construct found" error.

 

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[
@#$^_*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$

 

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(?!.*s).{8,127}$

 

(?=^.{8,127}$)(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])([EMAIL PROTECTED]).*$

 

 

Any guidance would be appreciated - Also can anyone recommend specific
books on how to create and understand them better?

 

 

Steve LaBadie, Web Manager
East Stroudsburg University
200 Prospect St.
East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301
570-422-3999
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
http://www.esu.edu <http://www3.esu.edu> 

 





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Regex Help

[Steve LaBadie]

I have been playing around with some regex patterns and have run into a
snag.  One issue the regex works differently in IE6 and Firefox. I
didn't know the regex would behave differently in these browsers. The
main issue is validating the use of character class (@#$^_*).  Do I need
to escape these? I have tried several ways of setting up the regex. I
get an "Invalid CFML construct found" error.

 

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[
@#$^_*])(?!.*s).{8,127}$

 

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(?!.*s).{8,127}$

 

(?=^.{8,127}$)(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])([EMAIL PROTECTED]).*$

 

 

Any guidance would be appreciated - Also can anyone recommend specific
books on how to create and understand them better?

 

 

Steve LaBadie, Web Manager
East Stroudsburg University
200 Prospect St.
East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301
570-422-3999
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  
http://www.esu.edu  

 



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Re: RegEx help

[Patrick McElhaney]

On 11/28/06, Steve Brownlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?!.*\s).{6,12}$
>

Hmm... I don't think this part is necessary:
"(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?!.*\s)"  No one said anything about
non-alphanumeric characters being disallowed, did they?

If that's what you're going for we can simplify a bit.

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]{6,12}$


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RE: RegEx help

[Bobby Hartsfield]

NOW you got it :-) good job. I tried a couple times myself. Then gave up...
then I got annoyed and tried some more wash -> rinse -> repeat lol
 

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From: Steve Brownlee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:20 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: RegEx help

Sorry, can't get this outta my head now.  Too interesting a challenge.
I believe this one will do it.

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?!.*\s).{6,12}$

LOL, as was said originally, easier to break it up into two expressions
than worry about creating a monstrous pattern (as shown above). 

Steve Brownlee
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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:27 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: RegEx help

'1a11' fails
'a1aa' fails
'1a' fails
'a1' fails

Actually... I guess everything I feed that one fails. Just go with Bens
original solution. It made it MUCH easier.





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RE: RegEx help

[Ben Nadel]

Nce :D

Yeah, I know what you mean. I have gone back to this like three times
and couldn't figure it out. I have never used chained look aheads.
That's a nice little trick (or rather usage of the language). Freakin'
sweet. 


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From: Steve Brownlee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:20 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: RegEx help

Sorry, can't get this outta my head now.  Too interesting a challenge.
I believe this one will do it.

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?!.*\s).{6,12}$

LOL, as was said originally, easier to break it up into two expressions
than worry about creating a monstrous pattern (as shown above). 

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RE: RegEx help

[Steve Brownlee]

Sorry, can't get this outta my head now.  Too interesting a challenge.
I believe this one will do it.

^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?!.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?!.*\s).{6,12}$

LOL, as was said originally, easier to break it up into two expressions
than worry about creating a monstrous pattern (as shown above). 

Steve Brownlee
http://www.fusioncube.net

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From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:27 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: RegEx help

'1a11' fails
'a1aa' fails
'1a' fails
'a1' fails

Actually... I guess everything I feed that one fails. Just go with Bens
original solution. It made it MUCH easier.



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RE: RegEx help

[Bobby Hartsfield]

'1a11' fails
'a1aa' fails
'1a' fails
'a1' fails

Actually... I guess everything I feed that one fails. Just go with Bens
original solution. It made it MUCH easier.

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From: Patrick McElhaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: RegEx help

On 11/28/06, Steve Brownlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What engine are you testing with?  Patrick's pattern validates against
> all numeric, all alpha, and mixed against Perl 5, JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5
> implmenetations.

He's saying "all numeric" isn't valid; there must be at least one letter.

If you want to require at least one number *and at least one letter*
this should work.

/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Za-z]).{6,12}$/

Patrick


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Re: RegEx help

[Patrick McElhaney]

On 11/28/06, Steve Brownlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What engine are you testing with?  Patrick's pattern validates against
> all numeric, all alpha, and mixed against Perl 5, JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5
> implmenetations.

He's saying "all numeric" isn't valid; there must be at least one letter.

If you want to require at least one number *and at least one letter*
this should work.

/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Za-z]).{6,12}$/

Patrick


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RE: RegEx help

[Bobby Hartsfield]

All numeric and all alpha should fail according to the requirements of th
original post
 

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From: Steve Brownlee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:26 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: RegEx help

What engine are you testing with?  Patrick's pattern validates against
all numeric, all alpha, and mixed against Perl 5, JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5
implmenetations. 

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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:19 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: RegEx help

No it doesn't. Neither does yours. Patrick's was closer though.

The only thing I could find that it failed on was an all numeric string
6 to
12 characters long. Yours failed for that as well as a string of all
letters
6 to 12 characters long.

Where's Ben Doom? lol



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RE: RegEx help

[Steve Brownlee]

What engine are you testing with?  Patrick's pattern validates against
all numeric, all alpha, and mixed against Perl 5, JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5
implmenetations. 

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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:19 PM
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Subject: RE: RegEx help

No it doesn't. Neither does yours. Patrick's was closer though.

The only thing I could find that it failed on was an all numeric string
6 to
12 characters long. Yours failed for that as well as a string of all
letters
6 to 12 characters long.

Where's Ben Doom? lol

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RE: RegEx help

[Bobby Hartsfield]

No it doesn't. Neither does yours. Patrick's was closer though.

The only thing I could find that it failed on was an all numeric string 6 to
12 characters long. Yours failed for that as well as a string of all letters
6 to 12 characters long.

Where's Ben Doom? lol

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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:47 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: RegEx help

Forget my attempt, Patrick's works perfectly. 

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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:29 PM
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Subject: RE: RegEx help

You could try this...

\b[(\d+|\w+)]{6,12}\b 




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