replace "|" with " | " (that's space-pipe-space), do your parse, and then trim everything coming out of it.
cheers, barneyb On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Les Mizzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've set up a function for a client to import lists of email addresses > from "|" delimeted files generated from Excel spreadsheets. There's a > specific format that they always use: > > firstname|lastname|emailaddress|other > > No problems. The code below works fine: > > ---------------------------------------------- > > <cfloop from="1" to="#ArrayLen(queryFromFile)#" index="i"> > > <cfset fromARRAY = #queryFromFile[i]#> > <cfset emailLIST = ""> > <cfset emailLIST = ListAppend(emailLIST,fromARRAY,"|")> > > <!--- IF THE ROW DOES NOT HAVE ALL 4 ELEMENTS, SKIP IT ---> > <cfif ListLen(emailLIST,"|") EQ 4> > <cfset req.firstname = ListGetAt(emailLIST,1,"|")> > <cfset req.lastname = ListGetAt(emailLIST,2,"|")> > <cfset req.email = ListGetAt(emailLIST,3,"|")> > <cfset req.other = ListGetAt(emailLIST,4,"|")> > </cfif> > > .... then check for valid email address and insert the row > into the database... > > ---------------------------------------------- > > But, they need to import a bunch of new list that may *not* have all > four fields for each row, so I could end up with a list looking like: > > firstname|lastname|emailaddress|other > firstname||emailaddress|other > |lastname|emailaddress|other > > Since the empty fields are ignored, everything gets snockered up into > the wrong columns. > > What's going to be my best way to assign a null or empty value to the > empty elements so everything ends up in the correct column? Been working > on this for awhile, but haven't found a great solution yet > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307204 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
