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convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:53:00 GMT

Brilliant, thanks Peter. One day I will "click" with regex!

Cheers,

Dave

2008/11/26 Peter Boughton :
>> If you have time could you explain what each part of the regex is
>> doing, so that I can learn for future?
>
> Sure
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convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:07:00 GMT

> If you have time could you explain what each part of the regex is
> doing, so that I can learn for future?

Sure. :)

Starting with the original PHP one:
/(\s)(\w+)$/i

the /.../i means "a regular expression, using the i flag"
the i flag is "
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convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:24:00 GMT

Many thanks Peter,

The " Sunday" was appended after the regex was applied so your
solution works perfectly.

If you have time could you explain what each part of the regex is
doing, so that I can learn for future?

Cheers,

Dave

2008/11/26
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convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:46:00 GMT

Sorry, brain-dead for a moment. :(

The two expressions above are incorrect - they should be

$wkstr = reReplaceNoCase($wkstr,'(\s)(\w+)$',' and \2')

wkstr = reReplace( wkstr , '\w+$','and \0
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convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:36:00 GMT

I'm not certain that regex is doing exactly what you say it is, but
simply converting the PHP directly to CFML isas follows:

$wkstr = reReplaceNoCase('(\s)(\w+)$',' and \2',$wkstr)

Although the $ at the start of the variable names are not required
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convert a php regex to coldfusion regex

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:15:00 GMT

Hi,

I am afraid that my regex skills are weak and I am in the final stage
of converting a php script to a coldfusion one. I am building a string
which can be of the form:

Every first second third fourth Sunday at 11:15

What the php regex does
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[URGENT] Incremental matches!

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:12:00 GMT

well guys
this works fine thank you all

select *
from NODE_TABLE
where '1.1.1.2.1' like id + '%' and id not like '1.1.1.2.1%'

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Regards

Mohammad Norouzi

Help each other to reach the future faster

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[URGENT] Incremental matches!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:33:00 GMT

Well
Chris Porter, has just replied me with a smart solution but I can't test it
right now until I get to work. I don't know why he can't post here.

this is the solution:

select *
from NODE_TABLE
where '1.1.1.2.1' like id + '%' and id not like '
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[URGENT] Incremental matches!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:18:00 GMT

Well, I have a tree structure in database in which each node has its own
unique id as above, say 1.1.1.2.1 now by given a node and its position (the
same id) I have to extract all its parents and return back to the client.
the parents' ids are
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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:01:00 GMT

> Thanks Adrian, No actually I am using Java Regex but I think they are alike.
> I want not to use any for loop

Why not?

Can you provide more context as to what you're actually doing? It
might enable a better answer.

You can do:
^\d for 1
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[URGENT] Incremental matches!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:15:00 GMT

> consider the current position I have is "1.1.2.1.3"
>
> I need to extract the following values:
>
> 1
> 1.1
> 1.1.2
> 1.1.2.1
> 1.1.2.1.3

I don't think there's a way to get that with a single regex... But this
would work

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Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:00 GMT

Adrian Lynch wrote:
>
> Are you using ColdFusion?
>
> No need to use RegEx, it's a list so:
>
>
>
> #i#

>
>
>
> Not a complete solution for you but you can see
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[URGENT] Incremental matches!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:11:00 GMT

Adrian Lynch wrote:
>
> Are you using ColdFusion?
>
> No need to use RegEx, it's a list so:
>
>
>
> #i#

>
>
>
> Not a complete solution for you but you can see
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[URGENT] Incremental matches!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:26:00 GMT

Are you using ColdFusion?

No need to use RegEx, it's a list so:

#i#

Not a complete solution for you but you can see how to get at all the list
elements.

Adrian

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[URGENT] Incremental matches!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:21:00 GMT

Hello
I have a string we call it position and this is in the form of '1.2.1.1'

consider the current position I have is "1.1.2.1.3"

I need to extract the following values:

1
1.1
1.1.2
1.1.2.1
1.1.2.1.3

or if position is "1.1.2"

I need
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Search box, phrases and single words

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:27:00 GMT

Many thanks Peter, for both noticing the stray whitespace AND for the cfsavecontent tag... never used that one before... I agree makes it MUCH easier to read!

Cheers,

Matts

>Ah! I just noticed - you've got a stray whitespace at the end of your
>
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Search box, phrases and single words

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:44:00 GMT

Ah! I just noticed - you've got a stray whitespace at the end of your
expression - my code has removed that whitespace. That's why the last one is
failing for you
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Search box, phrases and single words

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:43:00 GMT

>
> The SQL part we have. And I have a RegEx that works beautifully - but only
> if someone enters a phrase (in quotes).
>
> Our code is:
>
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Search box, phrases and single words

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:32:00 GMT

Hi All,

We have a search box on our site. Want users to be able to type things like

"Healthy Children" Canada Nutrition

and our SQL to loop over and look for
"Healthy Children"
OR
Canada
OR Nutrition

The SQL part we have. And I have a
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not in pattern - regex method pointcut advisor

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:11:00 GMT

Thanks for the push everybody. I read this blog post ( http://cdscott.blogspot.com/2006/07/pointcuts-even-more-fun-with-regex.html ) and basically copied it. I understand the situation much better now especially after reading all material provided.

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not in pattern - regex method pointcut advisor

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:25:00 GMT

> The current regular expression to handle the situation is
> [^discard|recycle|generate|frankGrimes]

the characters [ and ] indicate a "class" in which will be found or not
found all the individual characters... so in this case, the class you've

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not in pattern - regex method pointcut advisor

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:00:00 GMT

> I'm trying to write an expression for coldspring's regex method pointcut advisor. I'm trying to write a regular expression that is a white list of methods that I do not want intercepted.

Can you supply a bit of context to what ColdSpring's method
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not in pattern - regex method pointcut advisor

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:36:00 GMT

Not a regex but works:

#method# can come in...
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not in pattern - regex method pointcut advisor

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:29:00 GMT

Hello,

Please help me.

I'm trying to write an expression for coldspring's regex method pointcut advisor. I'm trying to write a regular expression that is a white list of methods that I do not want intercepted.

So I don't want any discard|recycle
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Find text NOT in an anchor tag

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:35:00 GMT

>I would like to search a piece of text for any instance of a word or
>phrase, unless it is inside a set of anchor tags.
>
>I.E. Search for 'Foobar' and find it in 'This is a Foobar example, but
>I do not want to find this
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Capitalize first letter of all words

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:40:00 GMT

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 18:15, Ian Skinner wrote:
> The trick being that this has to work on a ColdFusion 4.5 server, so the
> /u switch is apparently out!

Does it work if you put the slash the right way round? (it's \u not /u)

Can
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Capitalize first letter of all words

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:38:00 GMT

If you don't mind a loop solution:

http://cflib.org/index.cfm?event=page.udfbyid&udfid=889

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Skinner [mailto:HOF@ilsweb.com]
Sent: 02 October 2008 18:15
To: regex
Subject: Capitalize first letter of
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Capitalize first letter of all words

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:20:00 GMT

The trick being that this has to work on a ColdFusion 4.5 server, so the
/u switch is apparently out!

I have reReplace(myString,'(^.| .)','-\1-','ALL') working so that it
captures the first character of all the words. Now I need to find away
to
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Find a table cell containing an image tag

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:10:00 GMT

> they are irrelevant and unavailable to this conversion exercise. I
> could make them compliant and ignore them. But since this is more a
> learning exercise then anything...

Fair enough on both counts. :)

> The main features I do not grok
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Find a table cell containing an image tag

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:28:00 GMT

Peter Boughton wrote:
> Just replace ]*[^/])> with and not worry about the tables?
>
The main reason is that the fix I'm using is to remove the images, since
they are irrelevant and unavailable to this conversion exercise. I

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Find a table cell containing an image tag

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:01:00 GMT

> the reason I'm looking for these
> tags, is because they are not XHTML compliant and I needed to fix that
> so that I could get this HTML fragment into an acceptable XML mode.

So, why are you worrying about the tables if it's the image
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Find a table cell containing an image tag

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:31:00 GMT

Peter Boughton wrote:
> Can you elaborate on the context of what you're trying to do here?
>
> Because stuff like this is generally much much simpler with either
> XPath or jQuery.
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Find a table cell containing an image tag

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:47:00 GMT

> This is probably one of those look ahead|behind things that I still do
> not grasp about regex.
>
> I want to find tags in a string of HTML that contain an
> tag. But I need the entire ...... string to replace
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Find a table cell containing an image tag

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:25:00 GMT

This is probably one of those look ahead|behind things that I still do
not grasp about regex.

I want to find tags in a string of HTML that contain an
tag. But I need the entire ...... string to replace
it.
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ISAPI Converting URL value

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:34:00 GMT

HI abigail, i'm not sure, but i think you have this backwards. isapi_rewrite takes the incoming url & converts it to a physical url _before_ iis/cf/php etc gets ahold of it. my guess is that you really want to convert:
http://127.0.0.1/imp/www/889

(
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