if you control the air app, then just send ## instead of #
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Bryan Stevenson < br...@electricedgesystems.com> wrote: > > 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:357617 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
