Title: String List Compare

I have a DB field of user-entered 2-letter states, separated by a comma.

states = "CA, OR, TX";

or it could be

states = " CA,OR,TX, HI ";

in other words, spacing is inconsistent, but case seems to be OK.

I need to relaibly and FAST! answer:

is state = "CA" in states

Any ideas?

Greg

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P.S. this is what we got so far:

1) run a perl script on DB that will remove the extra spacing
2) add the flanking commas to both:

state = ",CA,";
states = ",CA,OR,TX,HI,";

3) states.indexOf(state) != -1

Greg

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