Chapter 39 Using Regular Expressions

IN THIS CHAPTER

Introducing Regular Expressions 455

RegEx Support in ColdFusion 458

Using Regular Expressions in ColdFusion 459

Some Convenient RegEx UDFs 472

Using a RegEx Testing Page 472

Crafting Your Own Regular Expressions 473

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 expressions are still incredibly useful in ColdFusion ...

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