Finding the "st" works fine with the list, however, when I do the replace,
I get nailed when something like "East St Louis" comes up... it becomes
"eaSaint Saint louis "
What now?
At 04:25 PM 4/18/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Handle your string as a list with a space as your delimiter - compare
>against each element in the list ("st" in a word won't be an element by
>itself)
>
>---
>Billy Cravens
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Gurfein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 4:22 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Wild Card
>
>I'm stumped...
>
>If a city is entered as "St Louis", I want to change it to "Saint
>Louis". I
>did <cfif city contains "st "> and did a replacement (note the space
>after
>"st".
>
>However, if I have a city such as "East Hartford" the "st " is changed
>to
>"saint" as well... essentially, I need to know if the "st" (or "st.") is
>
>stand alone and not preceded by any other letter.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>Jim Gurfein
>President, CEO
>RestaurantRow.com, Inc.
>http://www.restaurantrow.com
>914.921.3200 ext 101
>914.921.9190 fax
>
>
>
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