Adobe ColdFusion 8

ListContainsNoCase

Description

Determines the index of the first list element that contains a specified substring.

Returns

Index of the first list element that contains substring, regardless of case. If not found, returns zero.

Category

List functions

Function syntax

ListContainsNoCase(list, substring [, delimiters ])

See also

ListContains, ListFindNoCase; "Lists" in the ColdFusion Developer's Guide

Parameters

Parameter

Description
list

A list or a variable that contains one.
substring

A string or a variable that contains one. The search is case-insensitive.

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.

Usage

ColdFusion ignores empty list elements; thus, the list "a,b,c,,,d" has four elements.

Example

<h3>ListContainsNoCase Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("form.letter")>
    <!--- First, query to get some values for our list --->
    <cfquery name="GetParkInfo" datasource="cfdocexamples">
        SELECT PARKNAME,CITY,STATE
        FROM Parks
        WHERE PARKNAME LIKE '#form.letter#%'
    </cfquery>
    <cfset tempList = #ValueList(GetParkInfo.City)#>
    <cfif ListContainsNoCase(tempList, form.yourCity) is not 0>
        There are parks in your city!
    <cfelse>
        <p>Sorry, there were no parks found for your city.
        Try searching under a different letter.
    </cfif>
</cfif>