Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

Chapter 43. Using Regular Expressions

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• Introducing Regular Expressions E113

• RegEx Support in ColdFusion E116

• Using Regular Expressions in ColdFusion E117

• Some Convenient RegEx UDFs E136

• Building a RegEx Testing Page E138

• Crafting Your Own Regular Expressions E144

• Concluding Remarks E159

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Introducing Regular Expressions

ColdFusion includes support for regular expressions. If you’ve worked at all with Perl, you probably know all about regular expressions because they are such a central part of Perl’s string handling and manipulation capabilities, and generally walk hand in hand with the Perl language itself. As a rule, they aren’t nearly as important to ColdFusion coders as they are to Perl coders, but regular ...