[thelist] [ColdFusion] Regular Expression Questions

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Tue Feb 25 13:06:01 CST 2003


tobyn,

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> From: Tobyn Baugher
>
> Beam's response matches roughly what I would use for
> your first problem.
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yup, got that much sorted.

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> > so, next question is how to find relative and root
> > relative links in the document.  obviously,
> > '<a href="(\/?[^"]+)' is far too general.
>
> I think you can get away with this:
>
> <a href="([^:"]+)"
>
> All absolute URLs have colons in them between the
> protocol and the rest of the URL AFAIK (https?:, ftp:,
> mailto:), and so a URL that is lacking them would be
> relative.
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that worked a treat.  i knew it would be simple.  i just couldn't put my
finger on what the exclusive character was.

thanks,

.jeff

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