1) listcontains will not help you find where the < element
in your list is
2) regexp will definitely work
3) but why use complicated regexp (especially if you do not
really know
complicated regexp) when you can easily use simple CF
functions?
consider your list elements in your main list to be
comma-delimited
lists and use listlast() and listdeleteat() functions with
appropriate
trim() where necessary.
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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
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