Steve, Actually it is not doing as you tell it, because
"Item1,item2,item3,item4" IS and always will be one item, even if I use comma as a delimeter. This is the way CSV's have worked in .Net and ASP (none .net) 10 years ago. I don't think the argument that it is behaving normally is right, it is as far as I am concerned broken :-( -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -----Original Message----- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Onnis Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 4:18 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Quick List question Its not broken You define a character as a delimiter and it breaks the list up into items separated by that character. CF doesn't know it's a CSV formatted string, and why would it care? Its doing what you tell it and as far as I know it has always worked like that. -----Original Message----- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Scott Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 4:03 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Quick List question Nope all list functions. I have opened the discussion in an area that can't be named, so I will wait for what responses I get from there. I am curious why it has never been fixed? And to confirm it, yes all list functions do not work as expected. So that means they are all broken. -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -----Original Message----- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 3:58 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Quick List question Andrew, I'm curious is it just the ListGetAt(position) function that's the grief? it might be "broken" itself I wonder if all list functions are similarly broken: if you convert your list to an array with ListToArray(list) first would you get the correct 4 items or incorrect 6 items? On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Brett Payne-Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think list processing is clever enough to say "Ignore delimiters that are inside double quotes" so it treats the comma inside your 'third' element as a valid delimiter. > > You might have to run a clever bit of regex to replace said commas before the list processing and once you have the element then simply restore the commas. > > Someone cleverer than me will need to provide the regex though... :) > > > B) > > > Andrew Scott wrote: >> Scott, >> >> Cheers but I don't see how that helps, I am aware of how empty lists are >> handled. The problem lies in this example >> >> List Item #1, List Item #2, "inner List Item #1, inner List Item #2", List >> Item #4 >> >> This is for all intent and purposes only 4 items. Yet ColdFusion sees this >> as 6!! >> >> I know that this has popped up many times, and when you need it do you think >> google is helping? >> >> So ListGetAt(myList,4) >> >> Returns >> >> Inner List Item #2 when it clearly should be List Item #4 >> >> >> > > -- > Brett Payne-Rhodes > Eaglehawk Computing > t: +61 (0)8 9371-0471 > m: +61 (0)414 371 047 > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: http://www.yoursite.net.au > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
