Is there a way to use wildcards in the replace command?

I'd like to strip the html from text boxes before we put it into the database.
This is what I wrote but it doesn't work.

<cfset form.textbox = ReplaceNoCase(form.textbox,"<a href="*">","","all")>

I downloaded a html stripper that has this code in it but I don't understand
it and it doesn't seem to work.

<!--- Do replacement work here --->
<cfset temp = SetVariable("caller.#attributes.variable#",
REReplaceNoCase(attributes.input, "<[^[:space:]][^>]*>", "", "ALL"))>

You might want to take a look at cflib.org's http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=12 UDF.

still not working

The UDF worked fine for me. Can you be more specific? Can you post some code with an example of the value(s) giving you problems?

I added the line to the demoroize script.

This is how the precessing page is written:

<!--- format the comments field --->
<CFSET form.Comments = #boxFormat(form.Comments)#>

<CFSWITCH expression="#URL.Action#">
<CFCASE value="add">
<CFQUERY name="addEntry" datasource="#Application.dsn#">
insert into
guestbook(Name,Email,NoEmail,Location,Homepage,Com ments,IPAddress,EntryDate)
values('#form.Name#','#form.Email#',
<CFIF isdefined("form.Noemail")>1,<CFELSE>0,</CFIF>

'#form.Location#','#Homepage#','#form.Comments#',' #cgi.REMOTE_ADDR#','#DateForma
t(now())#')
</CFQUERY>

here is the end of the demoronize script

<CFSCRIPT>
// DEMORONIZE CODE BLOCK HERE

// remove html
field = REReplaceNoCase(field, "<[^>]*>","","ALL");
return field;
}
</CFSCRIPT>

it does work fine. i was calling the demoronize script incorrectly

I'm not sure why you are using "return" in this context. I think that may be
the problem.

The following worked fine



<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="testValue" value='<a
href="http://www.SITENAME.com">sitename</a>'>
<input type="submit">
</form>

<cfif IsDefined("form.testValue")>
<cfscript>
newValue = REReplaceNoCase(form.testValue, "<[^>]*>","","ALL");
</cfscript>
<cfoutput>
<b>orig:</b> #HTMLEditFormat(form.testValue)#<br>
<b>new:</b> #HTMLEditFormat(newValue)#
</cfoutput>
</cfif>

can you explain how this code works? I don't understand the markup.

You mean the UDF itself: stripHTML() .... or ...the regular expression : REReplaceNoCase(field, "<[^>]*>","","ALL");