lol, I always hear Raymond chiming in about evaluate...You all know he is part of George Bush's campaign to organize a new evaluate(task force) dont you. :-)
Douglas Brown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Camden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:18 PM Subject: RE: Number of times a character is in a string > Good catch there. Although you get points off for using evaluate - I'd > use a temp variable just to make it more readable. ;) > > ======================================================================= > Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Macromedia > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo IM : morpheus > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Lofback [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:05 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: Number of times a character is in a string > > > > > > Using ListLen won't work for single characters or for longer > > strings that > > contain only the target character. Here's one way to do it for single > > characters, case-sensitive: > > > > <CFSET MyString = "aa"> > > > > Character "a" occurs <CFOUTPUT>#Evaluate(Len(MyString) - > > Len(Replace(MyString,"a","","ALL")))#</CFOUTPUT> times > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Shawn Kernes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:51 PM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: RE: Number of times a character is in a string > > > > > > > > > ListLen(list [, delimiters ]) - 1 > > > > > > where the delimiter is the char you are looking for > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Graham Pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:44 PM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Number of times a character is in a string > > > > > > > > > Anyway to find out the total number of times a character is > > apart of a > > > specific string. Any direction greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -------------- > > > --------------- > > > Graham Pearson, System Administrator / Certified Webmaster > > > Northern Indiana Educational Services Center > > > Http://support.niesc.k12.in.us Email: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Voice (574) 254-0444 Ext 108 / (800) 326-5642 Fax: (574) 254-0148 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -------------- > > > ---------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
