Adobe ColdFusion 8

ListChangeDelims

Description

Changes a list delimiter.

Returns

A copy of the list, with each delimiter character replaced by new_delimiter.

Category

List functions

Function syntax

ListChangeDelims(list, new_delimiter [, delimiters ])

See also

ListFirst, ListQualify; "Lists" in the ColdFusion Developer's Guide

Parameters

Parameter

Description
list

A list or a variable that contains one.
new_delimiter

Delimiter string or a variable that contains one. Can be an empty string. ColdFusion processes the string as one delimiter.

delimiters

A string or a variable that contains one. Character(s) that separate list elements. The default value is comma.

If this parameter contains more than one character, ColdFusion processes each occurrence of each character as a delimiter.

Example

<h3>ListChangeDelims Example</h3>
<p>ListChangeDelims lets you change the delimiters of a list.
<!--- First, query to get some values for our list elements--->
<CFQUERY NAME="GetParkInfo" DATASOURCE="cfdocexamples">
    SELECT PARKNAME,CITY,STATE
    FROM Parks
    WHERE PARKNAME LIKE 'BA%'
</CFQUERY>
<CFSET temp = ValueList(GetParkInfo.ParkName)>
<cfoutput>
<p>The original list: <p>#temp#
</cfoutput>
<!--- Change the delimiters in the list --->
<CFSET temp2 = ListChangeDelims(Temp, "|:P|", ",")>
<cfoutput>
<p>After executing the statement 
    <strong>ListChangeDelims(Temp, "|:P|", ",")</strong>, 
    the updated list: <p>#temp2#
</cfoutput>