ReplaceList

Description

Replaces occurrences of the elements from a delimited list in a string with corresponding elements from another delimited list. The search is case sensitive.

Returns

A copy of the string, after making replacements.

Category

List functions, String functions

Function syntax

ReplaceList(string, list1, list2)

See also

Find, REFind, Replace, REReplace

Parameters

Usage

The list of substrings to replace is processed sequentially. If a list1 element is contained in list2 elements, recursive replacement might occur. The second example shows this.

Example

<p>The ReplaceList function returns <I>string</I> with  
<I>substringlist1</I> (e.g. "a,b") replaced by <I>substringlist2</I>  
    (e.g. "c,d") in the specified scope. 
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.MyString")> 
<p>Your original string, <cfoutput>#FORM.MyString#</cfoutput> 
<p>You wanted to replace the substring <cfoutput>#FORM.MySubstring1# 
    </cfoutput> 
with the substring <cfoutput>#FORM.MySubstring2#</cfoutput>. 
<p>The result: <cfoutput>#Replacelist(FORM.myString, 
FORM.MySubstring1, FORM.mySubString2)#</cfoutput> 
</cfif> 
<form action = "replacelist.cfm" method="post"> 
<p>String 1 
<br><input type = "Text" value = "My Test String" name = "MyString"> 
<p>Substring 1 (find this list of substrings) 
<br><input type = "Text" value = "Test, String" name = "MySubstring1"> 
<p>Substring 2 (replace with this list of substrings) 
<br><input type = "Text" value = "Replaced, Sentence" name = "MySubstring2"> 
<p><input type = "Submit" value = "Replace and display" name = "">  
</form> 
 
<h3>Replacelist Example Two</h3> 
<cfset stringtoreplace = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."> 
<cfoutput> 
    #ReplaceList(stringtoreplace,"dog,brown,fox,black", "cow,black,ferret,white")# 
</cfoutput>