Developing ColdFusion MX Applications with CFML
Using Regular Expressions in Functions

Chapter 7
Using Regular Expressions in Functions

Regular expressions let you perform string matching operations using ColdFusion functions. This chapter describes how regular expressions work with the following functions:

• REFind
• REFindNoCase
• REReplace
• REReplaceNoCase

This chapter does not apply to regular expressions used in the cfinput and cftextinput tags. These tags use JavaScript regular expressions, which have a slightly different syntax than ColdFusion regular expressions. For information on JavaScript regular expressions, see Chapter 27, "Building Dynamic Forms".

Contents

• About regular expressions
• Regular expression syntax
• Using backreferences
• Returning matched subexpressions
• Regular expression examples
• Types of regular expression technologies

ColdFusion 9 | ColdFusion 8 | ColdFusion MX 7 | ColdFusion MX 6.1 | ColdFusion MX | Forums | Developer Center | Bug Reporting

Version 6

Comments are no longer accepted for ColdFusion MX. ColdFusion 8 is the current version.

Send me an e-mail when comments are added to this page | Comment Report

Current page: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/Developing_ColdFusion_MX_Applications_with_CFML/regexp.htm

Add Comment