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• ColdFusion String Comparison: Compare() vs. Equals() vs. CompareTo()

  Posted on May 12, 2009 at 8:02 PM

  @Chris, Ben and others, Re. Chris's comment about the difference in comparison results, could anyone explain why that is happening?... read more »

• Ask Ben: Reading In A File Using CFFile And CFInclude

  Posted on May 3, 2009 at 7:20 PM

  Thanks Ben! I did end up writing a loop to ignore the first line. Since I did not want to modify the original data files, I think skipping the first line will work for now.... read more »

• Ask Ben: Reading In A File Using CFFile And CFInclude

  Posted on Apr 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM

  I am reading a .TXT file and parsing out the data that is tab-delimited. I am using the cffile action = "read" tag to do this. Is there a way for me to just looping from the 2nd row of data? The first row of data is the column headers which of course I am not concerned about because they are always... read more »

• ColdFusion String Comparison: Compare() vs. Equals() vs. CompareTo()

  Posted on Apr 1, 2009 at 11:37 AM

  @Ben Nadel, Great, it worked!! You got unbelievable reply speed! - within 6 mins of my query!! Thanks!... read more »

• ColdFusion String Comparison: Compare() vs. Equals() vs. CompareTo()

  Posted on Apr 1, 2009 at 10:37 AM

  Ben, Is there a way in Coldfusion to do a SQL like comparison? For example, I have a webform that has a ID drop down - the iD looks something like this "AC1200" or "PR1982" etc. Now what i wanna do is look at the first 2 characters of the ID, and based on that, enter a certain value in a column i... read more »