Cfml-tags in string variables and outputting

Hello,
i'm implementing a small content-managment system in my
web-application, based on cf-mx7.
i have an html-editor for editing the web-content
(FCKeditor). The content is then saved to the database.
Now my application simpliefied loads the content from
database and outputs it with
<cfoutput>#mycontent#</cfoutput> where mycontent is the
variable where the content is loaded to via cfquery-tag.
So far so good. This works fine.
Now i want to integrate some cfml-tags into the web-content.
so that variabe mycontent contains html-code mixed with cfml-tags.
but now the cfml-tags are only outputted to the browser as they are
and are not processed by coldfusion.
does anybody now how to implement that?
may regards and thanks for your help
mcdroemmel

Hello,
thanks for your answer.
The reason is following:
I show my content on a cfml web page using a
<cfmodule>-tag, where the template-parameter identifies a
custom-tag which gets the id of my content-object in the database.
that tag has some additional funcitionality such a show links for
editing the content when the actual user is the content-owner and
show header and footers. It also loads the content, identified by
the id of the content in the database, and outputs it using
<cfoutput>#mycontent#</cfoutput>
Now my intention is, that i want to use cf-tags in the
content. with that i want to indirectly nest some
<cfmodule>-tags. The result should be, that my content itself
contains content-objects, but for that my first content has to
contain that <cfmodule>tags
i hope i could descripe to you what my intention is.
regards
mcdroemmel

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the whole thing? I like the idea but it seems like
it would only be easy to implement if the file uses a
fixed-width character set. Or am I missing
something...?You are correct for the most basic implementation. It is very easy to create a char sequence for fixed width character sets using RandomAccessFile. Once you go to character sets such as UTF-8 then more effort is required.
While ever the regex is moving forward thought the CharSequence one char at a time there is no problem because one can wrap a Reader but once it backtracks then one needs random access and one will need to have a buffer. I have used a ring buffer for this which seems to work OK but of course this will not allow the regex to move to any point in the CharSequence.
'uncle_alice' is the regex king round here so listen to him.
:-( I should read further ahead next time!
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