Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-16 Thread DougF
; } /cfscript - Original Message - From: Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Strip multiple words from string H, I think I would use the replace function to first replace the first occurrence of the word by some

Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-16 Thread Claude Schneegans
What I'm attempting to do is stitch together a number of different strings to create a keyword list. Ah ah! Now this is a bit different. Hmmm, to do this, I would 1º remove all puctuation marks, CR, LF etc, 2º consider the text as a space delimited list, 3º in a loop, create a new list by adding

Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-16 Thread DougF
Sorry should have said: Is there a way to do this with 'OUT' having to specify the words/phrases to search for -Doug - Original Message - From: DougF [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Strip multiple words from string Thanks

Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-16 Thread Jim McAtee
- From: DougF [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 1:28 PM Subject: Re: Strip multiple words from string Sorry should have said: Is there a way to do this with 'OUT' having to specify the words/phrases to search for -Doug - Original Message

Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-16 Thread DougF
. Thanks, Doug - Original Message - From: Jim McAtee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 1:03 PM Subject: Re: Strip multiple words from string If, as you said, you're just putting together a keyword list, then take Claude's last suggestion.However

Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-16 Thread Jim McAtee
- Original Message - From: DougF [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: Re: Strip multiple words from string Part of the difficulty is describing the problem... sometimes the description evolves as unanticipated results materialize

Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-16 Thread DougF
- Original Message - From: Jim McAtee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 2:25 PM Subject: Re: Strip multiple words from string Just consider that there may be a big difference in the algorithm and the processing time between the two approaches

Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-16 Thread Claude Schneegans
Sometimes. But it's seldom that you'll find a solution to a problem that you're unable to define. May be, but sometimes it is much easier to find the solution first, then the problem ;-)) -- ___ See some cool custom tags here:

Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-15 Thread Douglas Fentiman
Any suggestions how to strip multiple occurances of a short list (4-8) of words from a string. The first occurance of each word must be preserved at its position. Using CF5. Thanks, Doug [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

Re: Strip multiple words from string

2004-05-15 Thread Claude Schneegans
H, I think I would use the replace function to first replace the first occurrence of the word by some string unlikely to be found in the text,like say %*%*%*, then replace all remaining words by nothing, using all , then but back the word at the place %*%*%* is. If you don't have too many