Maybe, but I'm telling you...once you make the leap and "get it" you'll never go back. I think regex might be the single greatest development tool ever devised. :-)
On 3/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh the lengths I'll go to in order to avoid writing a regex. > > <cfset mylist = "John Smith (mid: 1000), Peter Pan (mid: 87), Harry > Harrison (mid: 173)"> > > <cfoutput> > <cfloop list="#myList#" index="i"> > <cfset numlen = len(Trim(listlast(i, ":"))) -1> > #mid(Trim(listlast(i, ":")),1,numlen)#<br/> > </cfloop> > </cfoutput> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273868 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
