Re: Importing Lists with empty values
Raymond Camden wrote: > Don't forget CF8 modified ListToArray so you can detect empty items in a list. Yea - as soon as I get my freaking client to upgrade!!! Still stuck with CF7! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307217 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Importing Lists with empty values
Don't forget CF8 modified ListToArray so you can detect empty items in a list. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.cflib.org/index.cfm?event=page.udfbyid&udfid=507 > for starters > > Alternatively you could do a manual replace to replace every instance of > || with |some reserved word that you will interpret as blank| > > Just make sure you do the replace twice so "firstname|||address|other" > will work as well. > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307216 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Importing Lists with empty values
http://www.cflib.org/index.cfm?event=page.udfbyid&udfid=507 for starters Alternatively you could do a manual replace to replace every instance of || with |some reserved word that you will interpret as blank| Just make sure you do the replace twice so "firstname|||address|other" will work as well. ~Brad -Original Message- From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Importing Lists with empty values I've set up a function for a client to import lists of email addresses from "|" delimeted files generated from Excel spreadsheets. There's a specific format that they always use: firstname|lastname|emailaddress|other No problems. The code below works fine: -- . then check for valid email address and insert the row into the database... -- But, they need to import a bunch of new list that may *not* have all four fields for each row, so I could end up with a list looking like: firstname|lastname|emailaddress|other firstname||emailaddress|other |lastname|emailaddress|other Since the empty fields are ignored, everything gets snockered up into the wrong columns. What's going to be my best way to assign a null or empty value to the empty elements so everything ends up in the correct column? Been working on this for awhile, but haven't found a great solution yet ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307205 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Importing Lists with empty values
replace "|" with " | " (that's space-pipe-space), do your parse, and then trim everything coming out of it. cheers, barneyb On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Les Mizzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've set up a function for a client to import lists of email addresses > from "|" delimeted files generated from Excel spreadsheets. There's a > specific format that they always use: > > firstname|lastname|emailaddress|other > > No problems. The code below works fine: > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > then check for valid email address and insert the row > into the database... > > -- > > But, they need to import a bunch of new list that may *not* have all > four fields for each row, so I could end up with a list looking like: > > firstname|lastname|emailaddress|other > firstname||emailaddress|other > |lastname|emailaddress|other > > Since the empty fields are ignored, everything gets snockered up into > the wrong columns. > > What's going to be my best way to assign a null or empty value to the > empty elements so everything ends up in the correct column? Been working > on this for awhile, but haven't found a great solution yet > > > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307204 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
