To validate an email address in ColdFusion, we use the regular expression shown below.
You could easily add this to a CFC if you wanted to return a true or false depending whether the email address validates or not.
<cfset myEmail = "test@test.com">
<CFIF REFindNoCase("^[^@%*<> ]+@[^@%*<> ]{2,255}\.[^@%*<> ]{2,5}", trim(myEmail))>
Valid email address
<cfelse>
Oops, email address does not validate
</cfif>
To remove all HTML tags from a string, you can use the following regular expression.
This could be used to stop HTML being injected into URL values. Or even just for creating plain text content from a HTML page.
If ever you want to remove hyperlinks from a HTML page - here you go.
This code assumes a variable has been created called myFile that has either been pulled from CFHTTP, a stored local file or from the ColdFusion page output:-
To extract a page title from a HTML page that has either been pulled from CFHTTP, a stored local file or from the ColdFusion page output:-
