One might ask why this is a problem? If you've got a need for null values, then use an array. A good developer knows when to use different datatypes. ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Blocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT empty list items aren't counted? >From CFML Language Reference 4.0, under CFLOOP, "Looping over a List": "Note that consecutive delimiters are treated as a single delimiter." What a feature! Douglas Blocker Web Applications Developer icma.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 9:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OT empty list items aren't counted? > > > Sorry for the OT post but CF-Talk says I'm not allowed to post for some > reason... I'm working to get that fixed but in the meantime I > thought maybe > you'd have a response for this one... > > > I'm stunned to see that in CF, lists like ",1,,2,3,,5" are equal to > "1,2,3,5"!! > > Is this a bug, poor parsing code or intended behavior? Forgive > me for being > inflamatory but this is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while. Just in > case this is a bug, I'm running CF 4.5 on Win 2000 for my development > server. Has anyone else been bitten by this? > > CODE: > <cfset list=",1,,2,3,,5"> > <cfoutput> > List="#list#"<br> > ListLen=#ListLen(list)#<br> > <cfloop list="#list#" index="item"> > Item = #item#<br> > </cfloop> > </cfoutput> > > OUTPUTS: > List=",1,,2,3,,5" > ListLen=4 > Item = 1 > Item = 2 > Item = 3 > Item = 5 > > > Thanks and again I'm sorry for the flame but this is really annoying, > Jeff > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------ > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/fu sebox or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/fusebox or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
