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Is there a way to write in coldfusion something like:
< cfset ReReplace(value,"&#\d+;","#decodeHtmlEntity(\1)#", "all") >
Thanks a lot
The short answer is “No”.
CF doesn’t handle the regular expression execution natively. It hands off to a Java library (Oro, IIRC) to handle that. This means that any CF functions you call get executed before toe regex.
There is a workaround, although it’s not nearly as elegant as being able to pass functions would be. Use reFind() to discover all the instances of what you are looking for, and repolace them one-by-one. If you do the replaces last-to-first (eg if there are 3 instances, do the 3rd, then the 2nd, then the 1st) your starting point for each match will remain in the same location, so you can do an reFind all, instead of doing the reFind in the loop.
HTH.