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Re: RegExp question

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Subject	Re: RegExp question
From	"Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net>
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Date	2016-12-21 09:55 +0100
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justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> wrote on 21 Dec 2016 in
comp.lang.javascript: 

> 
> I'm processing some text files.  On average its size is between 50 to
> 70k. I first read a text file into a variable.
> Then, loop through the variable with line as its delimiter.
> 
> And I turn the body of the text with line breaks into HTML <BR>, prefix
> with <html><body> and add footer of </body></html>.  All this is done
> via a third party, server scripting language. 
> 
> The result HTML renders fine with both Firefox and Chrome though its
> entire content is on a single line.  And maybe that's single line is a
> source of problem... (I don't know). 
> 
> I then apply some logic and attempt to turn some phrases, i.e. 
> "immune system",  into HTML link (here's the Problem, most of the
> findings/terms/phrases were not replaced into what is supposed to be,
> see more below). 
> 
> 
> Sample paragraph of the text:
> "
> Understanding the intimate relations between the immune system and the
> carcinogenesis process is an old research line in immunology. In the
> late nineteenth century, Coley had indeed demonstrated that infection
> triggered by bacterial toxins-based treatment promoted tumor regression
> by stimulation of the immune system [1,2]. Still, it remains a
> challenging field of research as new interrelations are continuously
> discovered and the more we know, the more complex it looks. "
> 
> Server side code 

What serverside language?

> of attempting to turn some phrase into a link:
> <cfset cn = "<span style='color:##7A30A0'> <a
> href='morePoints.cfm?t=#URLencodedFormat(cName)#'
> target='_new'>#cName#</a> </span>"> <cfset newbody =
> replace(newbody,'#cName#','#cn#','all')> 
> 
> Question, what's the RegExp syntax for the above #cn#, namely, {new
> string}? the #cname# variable being the {string to be replaced}, fyi,
> the third party server side scripting language's function is REreplace,
> currently I'm not using it because I don't know RegExp. 

Do you have a Javascript Q?

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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