thanks for the reply, i actually just found a shortcut! i converted the string to an array which removed any empty array elements, and then converted back to a list and therefore deleted all the duplicate, and trailing commas
>I am sure there are some nice slick regular expressions to do this, but I >just simply do this a very dumbed down way. > ><cfset myVar = ReplaceNoCase(myVar , ",,,,,", ",", "ALL")> ><cfset myVar = ReplaceNoCase(myVar , ",,,,", ",", "ALL")> ><cfset myVar = ReplaceNoCase(myVar , ",,,", ",", "ALL")> ><cfset myVar = ReplaceNoCase(myVar , ",,", ",", "ALL")> > >You could also write a loop to run until FindNoCase(myVar, ",,") EQ FALSE, >so you keep turning double commas, into single commas which will continue to >reduce the commas, until there are no matches. > >Again, there is probably a RegEx way to do this, but I don't know RegEx off >the top of my head. > >Regards, >David McGraw >Oyova Software, LLC >http://www.oyova.com > > > > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:338750 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
