How to parse out feet and inches from string...

[coldfuse228]

Hi, I am trying to parse out feet and inches from height (i.e 5'6" or 5'6). I'm not too familar with regular expressions and have been trying to get a solution to this. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas of sample code to do this? I'm using FindOneOf and REReplace right now with no luck.

Thanks so much,
C.

[Newsgroup_User]

My first instinct would be to use list functions with quotes as the
delimiter.

<cfset height="5'11""">

<cfoutput>feet = #listFirst(height,"'""")# inches =
#listLast(height,"'""")#</cfoutput>

This is untested, I'm not sure if I got all the quote escaping done just
right, but hopefully that gives you an idea.

[coldfuse228]

Hi Ian, thanks so much for your reply, I'll start with this and go from there.

-c