how to use REFind

> Hi,
>
> I did something like this:
>
> <cfset strDate = "#now()#">
>
> <cfset strDateGet = REFind("{ts
> '[1234567890][1234567890][1234567890][1234567890]-[1234567890][1234567890]-[1234
> 567890][1234567890]
> [1234567890][1234567890]:[1234567890][1234567890]:[1234567890][1234567890]'}",st
> rDate)>
>
>
> and it worked. thanks.

Are you really wanting to match that pattern, do you you want to confirm
the string is parseable as a timestamp?

Your regex would accept an awful lot of combinations that pass the test for
that pattern but are not time stamps.

eg:

{ts '0000-99-88 77:66:00'}

It would also pass as true for:
"any old nonsense before the match {ts '2008-07-28 15:10:50'} and then some
other stuff here too". The reFind() would return a match there. Probably
not what you want.


You can also shorten some of your groups:

[1234567890] is the same as [0-9] or \d

And one can express series of the same match with curly-brace notation.
Instead of the cumbersome:

[1234567890][1234567890][1234567890][1234567890]

One could have:

\d{4}

--
Adam

Hi,

I did something like this:

<cfset strDate = "#now()#">

<cfset strDateGet = REFind("{ts '[1234567890][1234567890][1234567890][1234567890]-[1234567890][1234567890]-[1234567890][1234567890] [1234567890][1234567890]:[1234567890][1234567890]:[1234567890][1234567890]'}",strDate)>


and it worked. thanks.