James Skemp's StrivingLife

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.