Archive for August, 2006

Character Class Creator

Posted: 18th August 2006 by Adam Presley in Development

Out of necessity I have created a little Windows application which will scan and analyize a given set of text, and produce a character class set for use in a regular expression. So, if you have the text I am 28 years old., it will produce [a-z0-9\s.]. It also allows you to specify which characters [...]

Escape of the single quote

Posted: 18th August 2006 by Adam Presley in Development

Discovered the most interesting and strange bug in ColdFusion MX 7. Not sure about 6, cause I tested in 7. Anywho. With the MX release ColdFusion automagically escapes single quotes when using variables in the CFQUERY tag. It came to my attention at work that we were getting errors on a page that were related [...]