[thelist] Cold Fusion and string manipulation

Hi Frank,

Cold Fusion has several powerful string-manipulation functions built right
in.. For example, you might look into using ReReplace for some of that "Find
and replace" stuff..

Here's an example:

#ReReplaceNoCase("#pagecontent#", "ABC Corp.", "ABC INC.", ALL)#

Would return the string defined in the variable #pagecontent# with all
instances of "ABC Corp." replaced by "ABC INC.".

Cold Fusion Studio has excellent built-in help, it covers every Colf Fusion
tag as well as all functions, and is completely searchable by keyword.  I
use the built-in help in CF Studio more than both Forta books combined
(Don't tell Ben!).

Hope this helps,

Seth


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:) -----Original Message-----
:) From: Frank [mailto:framar@interlog.com]
:) Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 1:57 PM
:) To: thelist@lists.evolt.org
:) Subject: [thelist] Cold Fusion and string manipulation
:) 
:) 
:) 
:) I'm from a Frontier background. One of Frontier's greatest strengths 
:) is that it can chew up strings to beat the band.
:) 
:) Examples:
:) 
:) Let's say (all other considerations aside) that I wanted to replace 
:) all <li> with say <image> <p class="">. Piece of cake. I've been 
:) looking for such things in Cold Fusion. I notice that it's 
:) phenomenal 
:) at database manipulation, but doesn't seem so strong on strings. 
:) Another example would be that I could replace all incidents of "Abc 
:) Corp." with "ABC INC." either in the template, or in the 
:) body just as 
:) processed. Another example would be to find/replace all incidents of 
:) "ABC" with "XYZ" in the database itself. I'm finding this to be 
:) lacking in Cold Fusion
:) 
:) My questions are
:) 
:) 1) Are these abilities here in CF, and is it just my 
:) inexperience/lack of deep knowledge that I'm running into,
:) 
:) 2) Can this be done in CF, but lots of work-arounds are required,
:) 
:) 3) Am I indeed noticing what truly is?
:) 
:) 
:) I'd be interested in hearing of any cool string manipulation 
:) tips you may have.
:) 
:) --
:) Frank Marion,
:) Loofah Communications;
:) framar@interlog.com
:) http://www.loofahcom.com
:) 
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