listContainsNoCase

Description

Determines the index of the first list element that contains a specified substring.

Categories

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Syntax

ListContainsNoCase(list, substring [, delimiters, includeEmptyValues ])

Attributes

AttributeDescriptionRequiredDefault
delimitersA string or a variable that contains one. Characters that separate list elements. The default value is comma. If this parameter contains more than one character, ColdFusion processes each occurrence of each character as a delimiter.
includeEmptyValuesOptional. Set to yes to include empty values.
listA list or a variable that contains one.
substringA string or a variable that contains one. The search is case-insensitive.

Returns

Index of the first list element that contains substring, regardless of case. If not found, returns zero.

Usage

ColdFusion ignores empty list elements; thus, the list "a,b,c,,,d" has four elements.

Example

<h3>ListContainsNoCase Example</h3> 
<cfif IsDefined("form.letter")> 
    <!--- First, query to get some values for our list ---> 
    <cfquery name="GetParkInfo" datasource="cfdocexamples"> 
        SELECT PARKNAME,CITY,STATE 
        FROM Parks 
        WHERE PARKNAME LIKE '#form.letter#%' 
    </cfquery> 
    <cfset tempList = #ValueList(GetParkInfo.City)#> 
    <cfif ListContainsNoCase(tempList, form.yourCity) is not 0> 
        There are parks in your city! 
    <cfelse> 
        Sorry, there were no parks found for your city. 
        Try searching under a different letter. 
    </cfif> 
</cfif>