How about using ListGetAt() instead of GetToken()?
Joe Kelly

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Mast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:42 PM
Subject: RE: count whatever value from .txt file without loop


> We can count the commas np.  It's the getToken() function that we're
> having issues with...:)
> 
> Ron Mast
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Seth Bienek
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: count whatever value from .txt file without loop
> 
> Hey Ron, 
> 
> The list and token features in CF skip empty values, so there's not a
> straightfoward way (that I know of) to count the commas
> without some kind of looping.
> 
> Maybe a UDF like findit() will do the trick:
> http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=304
> 
> Take Care,
> 
> Seth 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Mast
> > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:22 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: count whatever value from .txt file without loop
> > 
> > How do I know it's empty if getToken skips it?
> > 
> > Ron Mast
> > Webmaster
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:45 AM
> > To: DFWCFUG
> > Subject: RE: count whatever value from .txt file without loop
> > 
> > yeah, you could do a replace for the empty commas
> > 
> > On 2/3/2005 10:24:50 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > > Yep
> > > that's exactly what we did...:)
> > > 
> > > We have determined how many commas there are per line.
> > > 
> > > BUT, now we have a different issue.
> > > 
> > > Here's
> > > what a line looks like:
> > > 02/01/2005,12:46,02/01/2005,WBNC,2000001095245,TRUTH HARDWARE
> > CO,A,Group
> > > defined by system,060148,0000270960,2251.47,,T M COBB CO,RIVERSIDE 
> > > 
> > CA,121000248,4159400779,,,,959442,1812.10,0,,959442,,,,,0794,213667.30
> > > 
> > > Can't use getToken because it skips over ",,,,".  I'm thinking that 
> > > getToken goes to the next "," with a value only.  How do get around 
> > > that?
> > > 
> > > Ron Mast
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> > > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:17 AM
> > > To: DFWCFUG
> > > Subject: Re: count whatever value from .txt file without loop
> > > 
> > > use CFFILE to read contents into memory, then consider the 
> > content as
> > a
> > > comma delim'd list
> > > and use ListLen() function
> > > 
> > > On 2/3/2005 9:41:34 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > I want to count how many commas there are in .txt file. 
> > How do I do
> > it
> > > > without using cfloop?
> > > >
> > > > Ron Mast
> > 
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