RE: list and looping problems

2001-06-10 Thread Seamus Campbell
many thanks - (I actually have three tables to amend two of which have more than 2 fields). I ended up doing this: added three yes/no fields - one for update, one for insert, and one to say whether or not to show the entry set all entries to No before an update/insert then if an update set the

RE: list and looping problems

2001-06-10 Thread David Shadovitz
Seamus, Option #1: Simply delete everything in the database and then add everything in the new group list. No need for updates. You can get away with this because the new group list contains all of the fields (i.e. 2) in the database table, if I read you right. Option #2: Remove items in-th

Re: list and looping problems

2001-06-06 Thread Seamus Campbell
many thanks With your help I have managed to get a bulk update/insert going However I cannot work out how to account for items originally on database but not on new group list ie groups that need to be deleted from original database after update process (is that understandable?) Any help grat

Re: list and looping problems

2001-06-06 Thread Seamus Campbell
Basically because I'm way out of my depth here and have virtually no idea of what I'm doing Can you possibly show me a bit more of what you are doing so I can learn a bit more??? Many thanks Seamus At 10:23 pm 5/06/01 , you wrote: >Seamus, > >I'm working on the same issue today. Out of curious

Re: list and looping problems

2001-06-05 Thread Marc Garrett
I wrote: > > #CityCode# / #City# > I just noticed I left that loop in from an earlier version of the page that worked a different way. Obviously you don't want to use cfloop when a regular cfoutput will do. Sorry. Marc ~~ Structure your Cold

Re: list and looping problems

2001-06-05 Thread Marc Garrett
Tim, thanks again for your assistance. I'd be interested to see whether you think the code below is a good way to handle this issue. Seamus, here's some code I wrote this morning that deals with the same issue. It had not occurred to me to use CFFILE until I saw your code, so my approach was to c

Re: list and looping problems

2001-06-05 Thread Tim Painter
sage - > From: "Tim Painter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:21 AM > Subject: Re: list and looping problems > > > > You can also use the pipe as the delimiter. This code uses

Re: list and looping problems

2001-06-05 Thread Marc Garrett
AIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:21 AM Subject: Re: list and looping problems > You can also use the pipe as the delimiter. This code uses that and steps > over every other list element to get the group code and

Re: list and looping problems

2001-06-05 Thread Marc Garrett
om: "Seamus Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:41 AM Subject: list and looping problems > Hi - I have a text file in the below format: > ~~ Structur

Re: list and looping problems

2001-06-05 Thread Tim Painter
pText,idx,"|")# Group Desc = #ListGetAt(groupText,grpDescIdx,"|")# HTH, Tim P. - Original Message - From: "Seamus Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:41 AM Subject: lis

list and looping problems

2001-06-05 Thread Seamus Campbell
Hi - I have a text file in the below format: 999|No Group Assigned | AC |Activity| BF |Brain Food | BT |Books On Tape | etc | I want to insert/update this into a database table wit