Coldfusion parsing through text...

[ClarkKent101]

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know if there is a function in ColdFusion that will enable a person to parse a string of text? I've been browsing around some CFDocs and just haven't come across any sort of function or tag... other than parseDateTime() which i cant exactly use to do what i want to do.

My task at the moment is to parse a string of text sent from a textarea control on a form, for some reason when a user types in single quotes around some text within the textarea control it gets sent as double quotes... for example, i type in: 'hello' into the textarea, when the destination page receives the string, it receives it as "hello".. which isn't what i want. So i'm thinking if i could parse the 'hello' string and replace the double quotes that gets sent into single quotes that it would solve the problem. I suppose i could try doing this in JavaScript, i'm just wondering if i can do it in ColdFusion?

Thanks for your time,

- CK

 

[Wullie]

Look into ReReplace and ReReplaceNoCase

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[ecobb]

Or, you could just use PreserveSingleQuotes() when entering it into the database.

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/functa53.htm

Hope This Helps!

ECAR
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[ClarkKent101]

Hi Wullie & ECAR,

Thank you both for your responses. The PreserveSingleQuotes() function is perfect to use in this case, thanks a bunch.

Solution i used:

<cfset myTextArea = FORM.textarea>

<cfoutput>#PreserveSingleQuotes(myTextArea)#</cfoutput>

Cheers guys,

- CK