states = " CA,OR,TX, HI ";
List l = Arrays.asList(states);
if (list.contains("CA") {
// true
} else {
// false
}
Greg Nudelman
<greg.nudelman To: "jdjlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
@imx.com> cc:
Subject: [jdjlist] String List Compare
2003/03/26
01:31 PM
Please respond
to "jdjlist"
I have a DB field of user-entered 2-letter states, separated by a comma.
states = "CA, OR, TX";
or it could be
states = " CA,OR,TX, HI ";
in other words, spacing is inconsistent, but case seems to be OK.
I need to relaibly and FAST! answer:
is state = "CA" in states
Any ideas?
Greg
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P.S. this is what we got so far:
1) run a perl script on DB that will remove the extra spacing
2) add the flanking commas to both:
state = ",CA,";
states = ",CA,OR,TX,HI,";
3) states.indexOf(state) != -1
Greg
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