UDF Help

[RonFusion]

I am trying to write a UDF for replacing some characters from my string. I am using replace list but somehow its just replacing only first character but not the others in the list
Here is what I am trying to do

<cfscript>
function Rep(theString){
var remove_char_list = "&, |, \, >, <, :";
var replace_char_list = "and, ' ''';
return ReplaceList(theString, remove_char_list, replace_char_list);
}
</cfscript>
basically & to be removed and (XML), and all other with empty strings, with this it just replace all occurences of & whereas others are not being replaced

Any comments??

[RonFusion]

My main intent is to get rid of all the replaces that I was using before and just ReplaceList because most of the characters are to be replaced with empty string and only & with and

[insuractive]

Don't you need to have an equal number of elements in your remove and replace lists?

e.g.:
<cfscript>
function Rep(theString){
var remove_char_list = "&, |, \, >, <, :";
var replace_char_list = "and, , ,&gt;, &lt;, '';
return ReplaceList(theString, remove_char_list, replace_char_list);
}
</cfscript>

[insuractive]

Now that I've read your reply, it seems like a better match would be to do 2 replaces - 1st replace swaps out the ampersand (&), 2nd replace uses regular expressions to remove everything else

<cfset sMyString = Replace(sMyString, "&", "and", "all")>
<cfset sMyString = ReReplace(sMyString , "[<>'""/]", "", "all")>

[Newsgroup_User]

What is your actual requirement here? ie: what is the issue you're trying
to resolve in writing this UDF?

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Adam