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Chapter 14
Using Regular Expressions in
Functions
This chapter describes how regular expressions work in the following ColdFusion
functions:
This chapter does not apply to regular expressions used in the
cftextinput
slightly different syntax than ColdFusion regular expressions.
For information on JavaScript regular expressions, see "Input Validation with cfform
Controls," in Chapter 9. For detailed descriptions of the ColdFusion functions that
use regular expressions, see the CFML Reference.
Contents
REFind
REFindNoCase
REReplace
REReplaceNoCase
tags. These tags use JavaScript regular expressions, which have a
About Regular Expressions ..................................................................................... 260
Basic Regular Expression Rules.............................................................................. 261
Multicharacter Regular Expressions ...................................................................... 263
Using Backreferences.............................................................................................. 265
Returning Matched Subexpressions ...................................................................... 266
Regular Expression Examples ................................................................................ 267
and
cfinput