regexp not working

[Manweevil]

trying to strip strings out of a http request using a regexp:

I'm querying a server as to the presence of PDF files in a directory, then parsing a list from the rawhtml, unfortunately, some of the files contain periods and commas, and the Regexp only matches a string from after the punctuation character,

e.g.: "John M. Smith.pdf" gets matched as "Smith.pdf"

Here's the Regexp:

<cffunction name="parsePDF" access="public" returntype="string">
        <cfargument name="RAWHTML" type="string" required="yes">
        <cfset REGEXPMATCH="^[\s\S][[:punct:]]*\.pdf$">
        <cfreturn REMatchNoCase(REGEXPMATCH,RAWHTML)>
   </cffunction>

TIA

Server Product	ColdFusion
Version	8,0,1,195765
Edition	Standard

IIS 6

[Adam Cameron.]

Your regex seems unnecessarily complex (esp given it ain't doing what you need it to 😉

What would be wrong with just:

^.*\.pdf$

?

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Adam

[Manweevil]

Still doesn't work. It seems to be a problem with the periods being interpreted as CR-LF instead of literals

[Adam Cameron.]

Yeah, sorry, I didn't read your requirement properly.

It's easy enough to tell where the .pdf file name ends in your mark-up (it'll end with ".pdf ;-), but how do you tell where the file name starts?  Given a file name can contain most characters (just slash and null are prohibited by NTFS... Windows is slightly more picky, but still), it kinda means you need to have something you identify as a boundary...?

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Adam

[Manweevil]

I've tried using a ">" as the beginning boundary, as the raw HTML is returning them being the text in

tags, but I wasn't having any luck.

[Adam Cameron.]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by wasn't having any luck? Did you try that second regex I posted?

You might need to attach some sample markup & your code.

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Adam

[Manweevil]

It appears to be a problem with the ColdFusion UDF, not the regexp. The expression that ended up working was "[\s_\-A-Za-z0-9\.&,]*\.pdf" I'm going to mark the thread as solved. Thanks for your help.