[thelist] Cold Fusion and string manipulation

on 01/19/2000 2:57 PM, Frank at framar@interlog.com wrote:

> 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.


I'd have to recommend the extended find and replace combined with regular
expressions in CF Studio for file manipulation.  You can do a lot, it's just
a matter of learning the syntax and the thought processes involved.

There are a lot of good resources all over the web for Regular Expressions
(aka RegExp), and the tutorial in the BBEdit User manual (you said Frontier,
so I'm assuming you have a Mac around somewhere) is quite good for the
basics.

The O'Reilly book, "Mastering Regular Expressions", seems to be a favored
source on the BBEdit list as well.  It's available at:
 
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=1565922573

Seth's suggestions for dynamic manipulation of data are new to me - thanks!

-- 

bob davis
bobd@members.evolt.org