http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T18:48:35 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/regexp12.htm#25890 \w is actually equivalent to :word: not :alnum:. The difference being that \w matches underscore (like :word: does), whereas :alnum: only matches alphanumeric values. Adam Cameron 0 0 2004-12-27T19:11:56 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/regexp12.htm#19705 How do you do a ^(full word) ?<br /><br />Something like this:<br /><br /><cfset somestring='<cfquery datasource="dsn" name="myQuery"'><br /><cfset getvalue=refindnocase('<cfquery^(name)name="([^"]*)"',somestring,1,"true")> Steve 0 0 2004-08-06T09:19:17 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/regexp12.htm#3608 Why are there escape sequences for digit, nondigit, alphanumeric and nonalphanumeric, but _not_ for alpha and nonalpha. Is this a documentation bug or do these escape sequences not exist in cfmx? isaac dealey 0 0 2003-11-09T14:56:53