Adam Fairbanks

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• Ask Ben: Delete Values In A Given List Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 29, 2008 at 5:41 AM

  @David Good catch. Here's a method using a regular expression: <cfset thelist="1,21,2,1,1,4,1,1,22,2,2,82,26,3,33,3,4,4,94,4,2,ab4,5"> <cfset itemstodelete="1|2|4"> <cfset delimiter=","> <cfset thelist=ListChangeDelims(thelist,chr(7)&chr(7),delimiter)> <cfset thelist=RER... read more »

• Ask Ben: Delete Values In A Given List Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 29, 2008 at 2:48 AM

  Here's the most succint solution I can think of: <cfset thelist="1,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,2,4,5"> <cfset thelist=ReplaceNoCase(thelist," 2 ","","all")> <cfset thelist=REReplace(thelist,",{2,}",",","all")> <cfoutput>#thelist#</cfoutput> If you want to replace ... read more »

• ColdFusion NumberFormat() Exploration

  Posted on Aug 14, 2007 at 1:48 PM

  Brett - I believe if you add YesNoFormat(), it should handle all the boolean options: #NumberFormat(YesNoFormat("1"))# = 1 #NumberFormat(YesNoFormat("true"))# = 1 #NumberFormat(YesNoFormat("yes"))# = 1 #NumberFormat(YesNoFormat("0"))# = 0 #NumberFormat(YesNoFormat("false"))# = 0 #NumberFormat(YesNo... read more »

• Exploring ColdFusion InputBaseN() And FormatBaseN() Functions

  Posted on Aug 13, 2007 at 1:05 PM

  Very nice! This will help me when converting colors in some server-side font and image manipulation tools I use that require decimal color values. I know a lot of hex color values by heart, but not many equivalent decimal values.... read more »