BTW....I forgot to mention that I control the Adobe AIR application and can alter it. This is all about a comments field in that application and I suppose one solution would be to ensure that my special list delimiter characters and # are kept out of the comments and this whole issue goes away ;-)
....but if there is a workable solution I always prefer to not restrict user entry in that way. Cheers *Bryan Stevenson*B.Comm. President & CEO Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. - makers of FACTS^(TM) phone: 250.480.0642 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: br...@electricedgesystems.com <mailto:br...@electricedgesystems.com> web: www.electricedgesystems.com <http://www.electricedgesystems.com> and www.fisheryfacts.com <http://www.fisheryfacts.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -----CONFIDENTIALITY------ This message, including any attachments, is confidential and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed unless expressly authorized otherwise by the sender. If you are not an authorized recipient, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy all copies of this message and attachments. On 14-02-07 08:58 AM, Bryan Stevenson wrote: > Hey All, > > I've got an issue where an external program written in Adobe AIR is > passing a pipe delimited list of values to CF via a webservice and that > list may contain strings like so "^" (a caret symbol)....or just a > straight up # (like someone saying x# of y - short form for x number of > y). BTW in Adobe AIR caret symbols in the data values in the list are > being replaced with "^" because the caret is a special character in > the pipe delimited list (it's used as a sub-list delimiter). > > CF chokes on the single pound in the variable (or confuses everything > between 2 # as a variable name instead of simple values). > > I'm having quite the brain fart day and so I'm looking for a way to deal > with this reality - any thoughts? > > TIA > > Take care > > -Bryan > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:357616 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm