REMatchNoCase

Description

Uses a regular expression (RE) to search a string for a pattern, starting from a specified position. The search is case-insensitive. For more information on regular expressions, including escape sequences, anchors, and modifiers, see Using Regular Expressions in Functions in the Developing ColdFusion Applications.

Returns

An array of strings that match the expression.

Category

String functions

History

ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 5: Added the flag useJavaAsRegexEngine to Application.cfc. Enable this flag to use Java Regex as the default regex engine. For more information, see Application variables. For information on using Regular Expression using the flag, see Using Regular Expressions.

Function syntax

REMatchNoCase(reg_expression, string)

Parameters

Parameter	Description
reg_expression	Regular expression for which to search. Case-insensitive.For more information, see Using Regular Expressions in Functions in the Developing ColdFusion Applications.
string	A string or a variable that contains one. String in which to search.

Example

 <cfhttp url="https://www.adobe.com" 
 method="get" result="httpResp" timeout="120">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />
</cfhttp>
<cfscript>
    // Find all the URLs in a web page retrieved via cfhttp
    // The search is case sensitive
   result = REMatch("https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?", httpResp.Filecontent);
   writeDump(result)
</cfscript>

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