Find *-/,;. and replace ????

[Bramvg]

Hi,

I'm trying to achieve something very simply, I thought.
But apparently it does not work.

I have a string like:

"The movie-trailer I've seen yesterday was: l.a. confidential"

Now, I would like to strip ALL the special signs out of this sentence, so it would be:

Chars to be replaced with a white space are: "-':."

So the result would be:
The movie trailer I ve seen yesterday was: l a confidential

But it does not work!?
It works fine if I only enter 1 char to replace.......

Any suggestions how to replace different signs?
tnx
bram

 

[GunJack]

Hey Bram,

You could run your string through several replace() functions to strip out each character or this loop might work as well.

<cfset myString=&quot;The movie-trailer I've seen yesterday was: l.a. confidential&quot;>

<cfset newString=&quot;&quot;>
<cfloop list=#myString# index=&quot;x&quot; delimiters=&quot;-':.&quot;>
<cfset newString=&quot;#newString##x# &quot;>
</cfloop>

Let me know if you have trouble with it.
GJ

 

[Bramvg]

GJ,

Once again, many thanks GunJack!
I never thought on a cfloop, how silly of me!

bram