It's not a bug. If it worked the same as ListFind() what would be the point
of the function? I honestly can't think of a good use for the
ListContains() function, but that's another matter. It certainly seems to
cause more confusion than anything.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 6:43 PM
Subject: RE: ListContains wierdness - why?
> Yes I agree with that, and my response would be that the list element is
> seperated by the delimiter hence returning the wrong value! And the
> documentation even clearly states, "String being sought in elements of
> list." And in this example 10 is an element where as 1 is not an element
in
> this example....
>
>
> regards
>
> Andrew Scott
> Senior Cold Fusion Application Developer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BORKMAN Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 04 December 2000 12:06
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: ListContains wierdness - why?
>
>
> No, this isn't a bug.
>
> According to the documentation, ListContains returns the index of the
first
> list element THAT CONTAINS THE SPECIFIED SUBSTRING.
>
> Your code returns true because the substring "1" is contained in the list
> element "10".
>
> So it doesn't really do what you were thinking.
>
> Lee (Bjork) Borkman
> http://bjork.net ColdFusion Tags by Bjork
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:24 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: ListContains wierdness - why?
>
>
> Hmmm, I think you found a bug!
>
> regards
>
> Andrew Scott
> Senior Cold Fusion Application Developer
> ANZ eCommerce Centre
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Park, Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 01 December 2000 06:47
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: ListContains wierdness - why?
>
>
> Why does the following always return TRUE?
>
> <CFSET FooList = "6,7,8,9,10">
> <CFIF ListContains(VARIABLES.FooList, "1")>
> TRUE
> <CFELSE>
> FALSE
> </CFIF>
>
> Do I need to put the values into an array?
>
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