What's the best way to loop backwards through a list? i'm reading in a
text file, and turning each line into a list item. got a line that
contains a value like Surname123, and I know I need to find Name123 which
is a few list items up in the list (could be a variable amount of lines
apart). There doesn't seem to be a built-in function (CF 4.5) to loop
backwards over the list starting at a given item. I was thinking perhaps
something like:
<cfset lineNumber1 = ListGetAt(fileList, 'Surname123', '#Chr(10)##Chr(13)
#')>
<!--- what line number is our start line on? --->
<cfloop index="i" from=lineNumber1 to="1" step="-1">
<!--- loop all the way back to the start if need be --->
<cfif FindNoCase("Name123", ListGetAt(fileList, i, "#Chr(10)##Chr(13)
#")>
<!--- found the value we're looking for in this line --->
<cfset Name = ListGetAt(fileList, i, "#Chr(10)##Chr(13)#")>
<!--- assign to a variable --->
<cfbreak><!--- break out of the loop --->
</cfif>
</cfloop>
It just seems like there has to be a simpler way of doing this?
Duncan Cumming
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