Regular Expression Replacement

[Guest]

I have a replacement string of the form "[\1\2]='\3'," and I'd like to insert a carriage at the end of the string. I've tried \n, \r\n and it doesn't seem to work.

[Newsgroup_User]

is the CR for outputting the result on html-type page or for storing in
db/text file?

for html-type: add <br>
for db/text: try #chr(10)# or #chr(13)# or both together. one of them is
LF another is CR - can't recall which one is which...

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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

[Guest]

Chr(10) is newline, Chr(13) is carriage return. BTW, do we all know what a carriage is? 🙂

[Newsgroup_User]

jdeline wrote:
> Chr(10) is newline, Chr(13) is carriage return. BTW, do we all know what a carriage is? :-)

sure! it's a 4-wheel horse-drawn transportation device! apparently it
can be returned... presumably if you do not want it any more or if it
has become outdated... anyone knows WHERE they are returned to? :)

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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
Vientiane, Laos
http://www.sabai-dee.com

[insuractive]

Obviously, all carriages are returned to the wonderous place of "Line Feed", which explains why you actually want to use #chr(13)##chr(10)# instead of vice versa.

Also, if that doesn't work for you, you can probably also just hit the enter key after your replacement string:

<cfsavecontent variable="sReplacePattern">[\1\2]='\3'
</cfsavecontent>

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. I'll give those ideas a try. In answer to the question, I'm copying data off of a website page with the clipboard and pasting it into a textarea and then running some CF with regex to build queries to update a database. So I just wanted to insert a line feed at the end of a string so that the next regex expression could get all that I wanted it to get with the beginning of string alignment ^.
Again thanks for the help.