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
> 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
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
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!
>
~~~
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
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
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
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
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