I feel like I'm missing something really obvious here: is there a way
to do basic string search and replacement?
For example, I have a string "foo:bar:baz", and I want to convert ":ba"
into "-DA". Thus, the output string would be "foo-DAr-DAz". This is
trivial in perl/sed/awk, but I can't find anything in native CF3 that
will do this (despite it being linked against libpcre).
I'd expect something like the snippet below, but I can't find it.
vars:
'orig' string => 'foo:bar:baz';
'new' string => regex_replace(${orig}, ":ba","-DA");
Right now, I'm shelling out to sed, but this seems...silly.
vars:
'orig' string => 'foo:bar:baz';
"new" string => execresult("/bin/echo ${orig} | /bin/sed 's,:ba,-DA,g;'",
"useshell");
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Jesse Becker
NHGRI Linux support (Digicon Contractor)
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