Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-10 Thread Wil Genovese
However, when using REReplace your forgetting the 'scope' attribute which lets you specify how many matches to replace. By specifying "All" you get them all. This replaces everything that is not a Digit - Regex in this case is defining digits using \d. And using ^ for NOT. Thus [^\d] means no

Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Peter Boughton
> Is there some magic CF function to take strings like this an strip the > alpha character? With CF8 (and equiv) there is a new rematch function, which would allow: Which is selecting the numbers rather than stripping the non-numbers. The difference in behaviour would be if you had non-conse

RE: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Andy Matthews
There's also REMatch (new in CF8) which returns the actual string matched instead of just the position of that string. -Original Message- From: Chad Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:57 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: strip alpha char Ah... REReplace

Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Matt Quackenbush
String functions: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/functions-pt0_18.html#1099887 :-) On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Chad Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah... REReplace... I only knew of REFind... > > THANKS! > ~~~

RE: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Chad Gray
Ah... REReplace... I only knew of REFind... THANKS! > -Original Message- > From: Matt Quackenbush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:50 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: strip alpha char > > Ops, I did that backwards... > &g

RE: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Adrian Lynch
REReplace() Adrian -Original Message- From: Chad Gray Sent: 07 November 2008 16:44 To: cf-talk Subject: strip alpha char I have a list of file names and I only want the numbers in the file names. I don't want any alpha characters. I can use RE to find the numbers, but it get complicate

Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Matt Quackenbush
Ops, I did that backwards... reReplace(myString, "[\D]", "", "all") On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Matt Quackenbush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > reReplace(myString, "[^A-Za-z]", "", "all") > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 softw

Re: strip alpha char

2008-11-07 Thread Matt Quackenbush
reReplace(myString, "[^A-Za-z]", "", "all") On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Chad Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a list of file names and I only want the numbers in the file names. > I don't want any alpha characters. > > I can use RE to find the numbers, but it get complicated to fin