Regular Expression tester - ColdFusion

• January 10, 2008
• James Skemp
• tutorials / guides

I stumbled upon some code I had written back in September, for testing regular expressions. This uses ColdFusion, and is currently 'running' on ColdFusion MX 6.1 and ColdFusion 7.0.

It's a pity to not make it available, since it's such an easy template ...

<!--- --- ---
DESCRIPTION:
	 Basic way to test a regular expression.
CALLED BY:
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CALLS:
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ASSUMPTIONS:
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MODIFICATION HISTORY:
DATE		USER	ACTION
09/24/2007	J.Skemp	Created template.
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<style type=“text/css”>
form {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
form label, .label_kludge {
display:block;
float:left;
width:180px;
padding:0;
margin:5px 0 0;
text-align:right;
}
form input, form textarea, form select {
width:200px;
margin:5px 0 0 10px;
}
textarea {
overflow:auto;
}
form br {
clear:left;
}
</style>
<cfparam name=“RegularExpression” default="" />
<cfparam name=“TestString” default="" />
<cfparam name=“CaseSensitive” default=“off” />
<h1>The great regular expression testing solution</h1>
<cfform>
<label for=“RegularExpression”>Regular Expression:</label><cfinput type=“text” name=“RegularExpression” style=“width:350px;” value="#RegularExpression#" /><br />
<label for=“TestString”>Test String:</label><cfinput type=“text” name=“TestString” style=“width:350px;” value="#TestString#" /><br />
<label for=“CaseSensitive”>Case Sensitive:</label><input type=“checkbox” name=“CaseSensitive” <cfif CaseSensitive EQ “on”>checked=“checked”</cfif> /><br />
<span class=“label_kludge”> </span><input type=“submit” value=“Test” />
</cfform>
<cfif RegularExpression NEQ "" AND TestString NEQ “">
<cfif CaseSensitive EQ “on”>
<cfset FindText = REFind(RegularExpression, TestString) />
<cfelse>
<cfset FindText = REFindNoCase(RegularExpression, TestString) />
</cfif>
<p>Result: <cfif FindText EQ 0><strong>no</strong> </cfif>match found</p>
</cfif>

Updates

May 4, 2008: Corrected a simple label error.

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