how to use list function in CF

[gokul1242]

I have a file name as below :

2009 Master Calendar  (4.2.09).xls

Now how to use list funtions ie.listfirst or listlast to display the file name alone without the file ext.

ie,.2009 Master Calendar  (4.2.09)

[Adam Cameron.]

Are the docs somehow unclear?  You did read the docs, right?

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/10.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7b62.html

What did you try, and in what way did it not work?

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Adam

[gokul1242]

I used it as

<cfset filename=listfirst(#dirsOnly.Name#,'.')>

But i got the output as

2009 Master Calendar  (4

[Adam Cameron.]

But you can see why that's happening, right? That *is* the first element of a dot-separated list, innit? So what you probably need to do is to revise your thinking slightly, and approach it from "how do I get rid of the last element of a list" (the file extension is the last element of a dot-delimited list.

How do you delete stuff from a list?

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Adam

[Guest]

<cfset a = "2009 Master Calendar  (4.2.09).xls">

<cfset b = len(listlast(a,'.'))>

<cfset c = left(a,len(a) - b - 1)>

<cfoutput>#c#</cfoutput>

[Adam Cameron.]

That's a lot more work that it needs to be. One can use listDeleteAt() to drop the last item from the list.

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Adam