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A small suggestions, do some reading up on creating normalised databases. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of damian
> Sent: 18 November 2004 13:12
> To: Coldfusion Development
> Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] listgetat?
> 
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> As Tom says, you really want to make more sense of the data 
> if at all possible...
> 
> Something like 3 tables:
> 
> package: ID, other cols
> products: ID (you are using A,B by the looks of)
> join: packageID, productID, number of
> 
> Having a string like that is fairly doomed!! If you can't 
> change the data structure feasibly, you could change the 
> input form at least so that users supply a numeric value for 
> each product- then you could create the string from that 
> which means at least you will have control of its syntax and 
> not be reliant on user text input.
> 
> HTH
> d
> 
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Paul Swingewood" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:28:49 +0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CF-Dev] listgetat?
> 
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> >  CAn anyone help me with this one please.
> >  
> >  I have a field in SQL that contains "This package consists 
> of 1 off 
> > product  A 2 off product b etc..."
> >  The user types in what is included into a text box on a form.
> >  
> >  I want to be able to display the contents of this field in a list 
> > like this
> >  
> >  This package consists of
> >  
> >  1 off product A
> >  2 off product B
> >  
> >  etc ....
> >  
> >  How can I code this in coldfusion?
> >  
> >  Regards - Paul
> >  
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