Something like the following will build your comma-delimited list in CF:
<cflock timeout="5" name="readfile" type="READONLY">
<cffile action="read" file="C:\file.txt" variable="ListLoop">
</cflock>
<cfset myList = "">
<cfloop index="i" list="#listLoop#" delimiters="#chr(10)#">
<cfif find("DATA",i) or find("FILE",i) or find("IMAGE",i)>
<cfset myList = listAppend(myList,i)>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
Now saving the text file to the user's machine is a different issue.
This isn't something you can accomplish in CF - you'll need to use some
client-side code (you'll have to get around the security issues, and if
you need it to be cross-browser compatible, you'll have a real challenge
on your hands).
Keep in mind that it would be easier to store a cookie with the
information (though cookies have size limitations, and a cookie may not
fit your need)
**************************
Billy Cravens
Web and Software consulting
www.Architechx.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:list-request@;dfwcfug.org] On
Behalf Of FlashGuy
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 1:10 PM
To: FlashMX
Subject: Reading from external file
Hi,
I require the following:
1. Read in an external file.
2. All lines that contains "DATA", "FILE", "IMAGE" are put into a
variable which is comma-delimited. Everything else that doesn't match
the criteria gets thrown out.
3. The results of this variable gets stored on the users PC for future
reference as a comma-deliimited text file (ref.txt)
<cflock timeout="5" name="readfile" type="READONLY">
<cffile action="read" file="C:\file.txt" variable="ListLoop">
</cflock>
I'm not sure where to go next? I tried something like below but it lists
*everything* in the external file being read in.
<cfif ListLoop CONTAINS "DATA" OR
ListLoop CONTAINS "DATA" OR
ListLoop CONTAINS "DATA">
#ListLoop#
</cfif>
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Guatanamo Bay, Cuba
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