Hi Matt, So let's say I've stripped everything out of
'St. Louis, MO KLSDJLKDJF' using stateEtc = trim(ListLast(foo)) to get 'MO KLSDJLKDJF' Would this be the best way to get 'MO'? statematch = listfirst(stateetc, " ") That would make statematch equal to MO since it lists the first part of the string using the space as a delimiter. Or is that going to list the first part of the string AFTER the delimiter is found? If it's right as is, Then I could just test if it's length is 2 or not, and if it is, test if it just alphabetical characters. <CFIF listlen(statematch) eq 2 and isAlphabetical(statematch)> Now, there isn't an isalphatical function that I know of. http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt010.htm#3485787 What can I do to check if the 2 character string only containts a-z Can I do something like find("a-z", foo) ?? Not sure what to do in place of the isalphatetical part <CFIF listlen(statematch) eq 2 and isAlphabetical(statematch)> -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
