[thelist] Cold Fusion and string manipulation

frank,

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: From: Frank <framar@interlog.com>
:
: Let's say (all other considerations aside) that I wanted to replace
: all <li> with say <image> <p class="">. Piece of cake.
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assuming the string that contains the stuff you want to replace is held in
the variable "yourstring" and you wanted the search and replace to be
case-insensitive:

#ReplaceNoCase(yourstring,'<li>','<image> <p class="">','ALL')#

or, if you wanted this to be a case sensitive search and replace:

#Replace(yourstring,'<li>','<image> <p class="">','ALL')#

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: 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.
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it's actually got tons of string manipulation functions.  you just gotta
look for 'em.  *grin*

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: 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.
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assuming a case-sensitive replace and the string you want to process is held
in the variable "pagecontent":

#Replace(pagecontent,'Abc Corp.','ABC INC.','ALL')#

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: 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
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#Replace(pagecontent,'ABC','XYZ','ALL')#

you can find all sorts of info on string manipulation in the cold fusion
documentation with your server install, usually somewhere like this:

http://127.0.0.1/cfdocs/CFML_Language_Reference/3_ColdFusion_Functions/lr3_0
13.htm

good luck,

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