I would also advise against this, because your double pipes could be mistaken for an empty list item in a list delimited by single pipes.
You could always delimit it with non-printable characters like ctrl-g or some such too. Marlon Ben Doom wrote: >This applies to CF5 for sure, and I think all other versions as well. > >Delimiters in CF native lists are always single characters. > >When reading a list, you may select multiple delimiters, but if you select >,; as the delimiters, >a,b,;c;d >is a list of a and b and c and d with an empty list element (ignored) >between b and c. > >In short, if you want to use a double char as a list delimiter, you're going >to have to do it manually (or write your own UDFs to do it). CF doesn't >handle it natively. > > > > --Ben Doom > Programmer & General Lackey > Moonbow Software > >: -----Original Message----- >: From: Smith, Matthew P -CONT(DYN) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >: Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:12 PM >: To: CF-Talk >: Subject: can't listappend w/ double pipe delimiter? >: >: >: <cfset request.mainNavigationList=listAppend( request.mainNavigationList, >: "oneOne|OneTwo" , "||" )> >: <cfset request.mainNavigationList=listAppend( request.mainNavigationList, >: "twoOne|twoTwo" , "||" )> >: <cfdump var="#request.mainNavigationList#"><br><cfabort> >: >: results in: >: >: oneOne|OneTwo|twoOne|twoTwo >: >: (single pipe in middle) >: >: but I want : >: >: oneOne|OneTwo||twoOne|twoTwo >: >: (double pipe in middle) >: >: I could work around by changing up the cfsets, but I would like >: to know how >: to listAppend with a double character delimeter. >: >: Thanks for any help. >: Matthew P. Smith >: Web Developer, Object Oriented >: Naval Education & Training Professional >: Development & Technology Center >: (NETPDTC) >: (850)452-1001 ext. 1245 >: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >: >: >: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
