RegEx Help

[John Blayter]

I need some assistance with some RegEx.

My goal is to replace the word "mentor" that is not inside of a HTML tag with the word "teacher".

Here is what I have so far...

<cfsavecontent variable="variables.pageContent">
    <a href="mentorLink.cfm">this is the mentor mentoring link</a>
    this is my mentor.
    <input type="text" name="foobar" value="mentor">
</cfsavecontent>
<cfset variables.pageContent = reReplace(variables.pageContent,"mentor(?=([[:space:]]|[[:punct:]]))","teacher","all")>
<cfoutput>#variables.pageContent#</cfoutput>


Desired Outout.....
    <a href="mentorLink.cfm">this is the teacher mentoring link</a>
    this is my teacher.
    <input type="text" name="foobar" value="mentor">


Thanks,

--
John Blayter
[phone]
john@...
http://www.blayter.com/john/

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[Peter Boughton]

Probably not the best way, but this will work (assuming you always have
surrounding tags):

<cfloop condition="REFind('>([^<]*)\bmentor\b([^<]*)<',variables.PageContent
)">
    <cfset variables.PageContent = REReplace
        ( variables.PageContent
        , ">([^<]*)\bmentor\b([^<]*)<"
        , ">\1teacher\2<"
        , "all"
        )/>
</cfloop>

Note the use of \b - that's a zero-width word boundary, and avoids the
space/punct stuff you had.



On Jan 14, 2008 9:45 PM, John Blayter <jblayter@...> wrote:

> I need some assistance with some RegEx.
>
> My goal is to replace the word "mentor" that is not inside of a HTML tag
> with the word "teacher".
>
> Here is what I have so far...
>
> <cfsavecontent variable="variables.pageContent">
>    <a href="mentorLink.cfm">this is the mentor mentoring link</a>
>    this is my mentor.
>    <input type="text" name="foobar" value="mentor">
> </cfsavecontent>
> <cfset variables.pageContent = reReplace(variables.pageContent
> ,"mentor(?=([[:space:]]|[[:punct:]]))","teacher","all")>
> <cfoutput>#variables.pageContent#</cfoutput>
>
>
> Desired Outout.....
>    <a href="mentorLink.cfm">this is the teacher mentoring link</a>
>    this is my teacher.
>    <input type="text" name="foobar" value="mentor">
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> John Blayter
> [phone]
> john@...
> http://www.blayter.com/john/
>
>

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