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Method Composition Works Externally But Not Internally - reEscape(), reUnescape(), and reEscape2()

Posted on December 1, 2007 at 6:30 PM in General, ColdFusion

What is reEscape()?

Often times, when you pass a string through ColdFusion's built-in regular expression (regEx) functions [reFind()/reFindNoCase()/reReplace()/reReplaceNoCase()], the string needs to have regEx special characters escaped. reEscape() is a tidy little method that I wrote to do just that.

So, let's see reEscape() in action, and point out its good and its bad.

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On 12/1/07 at 10:06 PM, Sean Corfield said:

I guess you'll be updating this post now you have it working, eh? :)

BTW, method chaining is foo().bar().wibble() - what you are doing is typically called method composition foo( bar( wibble() ) )

On 12/2/07 at 3:05 PM, Matt Quackenbush said:

@sean - update made. Thank you again for your help and tips. Also, thank you for pointing out my misuse of the term "method chaining". I have updated the title to reflect the correct term of "method composition".

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