> > Besides commas and pipes, what are the next best choices
> > for delimiting lists?
>
> use a series of hard to find types.
> something like: "~%~"
>
> this will guarntee NO ONE will type it.
There are two problems with this. First, in CF, you can't really use
multiple characters as a single delimiter very easily. All of the tags and
functions that allow list manipulation accept a delimiters attribute or
argument, but if you specify multiple characters in that, it just means that
ANY ONE of those characters will be accepted as a delimiter!
Second, anything that can be typed in, will be typed in by somebody, given a
large enough sample of people.
If you're building the lists yourself, I'd recommend using a non-printable
ASCII character as the delimiter. I usually use Chr(7) - the bell character.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
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