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I'm working to turn the follow below into a friendly URL. "Who watched Jay Leno's Show [Last Night]" I tried using: <cfset newUrl = reReplaceNoCase(arguments.theString, "\W", "-", "ALL")> But that results in "Who-watched-Jay-Leno-s-Show--Last-Night-- Is there a regex that can do this task in a way to handle punctuation? So Commas don't get a - and periods do? Can this be done in one like of Regex or does it need to be a series? Thanks

> <cfset newUrl = reReplaceNoCase(arguments.theString, "\W", "-", "ALL")> > But that results in "Who-watched-Jay-Leno-s-Show--Last-Night-- <cfset newUrl = reReplaceNoCase(arguments.theString, "[^a-zA-Z0-9]", "-", "ALL")> i.e. turn everything that isn't letter or number into dash. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to professionally e-enable collaborative materials on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB.  A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP.  Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged.  If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents.   If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com.

With a plus on the end [^a-zA-Z0-9]+ so that     this is some (, .]]text => this-is-some-text other wise you'll get    this-is-some-------text ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

> With a plus on the end > [^a-zA-Z0-9]+ Ahh, yes. May or may not be what the OP wants, but I think your's works better. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to quickly generate visionary designs on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB.  A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP.  Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged.  If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents.   If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com.

But that would turn Blah is the movie's ending's into : blah-is-the-movie-s-ending-s right? It doesn't handle punctuation? Tom Chiverton <tom.chiverton@halliwells.com> wrote: > With a plus on the end > [^a-zA-Z0-9]+ Ahh, yes. May or may not be what the OP wants, but I think your's works better. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to quickly generate visionary designs on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB.  A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP.  Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged.  If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents.   If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com.

> But that would turn Blah is the movie's ending's > into : blah-is-the-movie-s-ending-s > right? It doesn't handle punctuation? It does what it says on the tin :-) If you want to remove all the ' first, just replace() them into nothing then do the reg. exp. to handle everything else. Maybe you want <cfset newUrl = reReplaceNoCase(arguments.theString, "[! \/\!""'£$%^&\*\(\)_+-=/-+]", "", "ALL")> <cfset newUrl = reReplaceNoCase(newurl, "[^a-zA-Z0-9]+", "-", "ALL")> or similar (i.e. first one strips anything funny, 2nd one makes anything left that isn't alphanumeric a dash). Watch the escaping on the first expression :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to competently visualize one-to-one meta-services on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB.  A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP.  Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged.  If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents.   If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com.

Id just do it with 2 [^a-z0-9] with nothing Then spaces with _ > But that would turn Blah is the movie's ending's > into : blah-is-the-movie-s-ending-s > right? It doesn't handle punctuation? It does what it says on the tin :-) If you want to remove all the ' first, just replace() them into nothing then do the reg. exp. to handle everything else. Maybe you want <cfset newUrl = reReplaceNoCase(arguments.theString, "[! \/\!""'£$%^&\*\(\)_+-=/-+]", "", "ALL")> <cfset newUrl = reReplaceNoCase(newurl, "[^a-zA-Z0-9]+", "-", "ALL")> or similar (i.e. first one strips anything funny, 2nd one makes anything left that isn't alphanumeric a dash). Watch the escaping on the first expression :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to competently visualize one-to-one meta-services on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB.  A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP.  Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged.  If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents.  If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com.

I'm trying to use the following: <cfset newtitle = reReplaceNoCase(newtitle, "\W", "-", "ALL")> The problem with the above is the following string "microsoft-yahoo" is turned into "microsoft--yahoo" adding another dash... Is there a way to add a negative or escape to the code above so dashes aren't redashed? Thanks! Tom Chiverton <tom.chiverton@halliwells.com> wrote: > But that would turn Blah is the movie's ending's > into : blah-is-the-movie-s-ending-s > right? It doesn't handle punctuation? It does what it says on the tin :-) If you want to remove all the ' first, just replace() them into nothing then do the reg. exp. to handle everything else. Maybe you want reReplaceNoCase(arguments.theString, "[! \/\!""'£$%^&\*\(\)_+-=/-+]", "", "ALL")> reReplaceNoCase(newurl, "[^a-zA-Z0-9]+", "-", "ALL")> or similar (i.e. first one strips anything funny, 2nd one makes anything left that isn't alphanumeric a dash). Watch the escaping on the first expression :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to competently visualize one-to-one meta-services on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB.  A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP.  Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged.  If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents.   If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com.