ListToArray

Description

Copies the elements of a list to an array.

Return value

An array

Syntax

ListToArray(list [, delimiters ])

Parameters

Parameter Description

list
A list or a variable that contains one.
You define a list variable with a cfset statement.

delimiters
A string or a variable that contains one. Character(s) that separate list elements. Default: comma.
If this parameter contains more than one character, ColdFusion processes each occurrence of each character as a delimiter.

Parameter	Description
list	A list or a variable that contains one. You define a list variable with a `cfset` statement.
delimiters	A string or a variable that contains one. Character(s) that separate list elements. Default: comma. If this parameter contains more than one character, ColdFusion processes each occurrence of each character as a delimiter.

Usage

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

Example

<h3>ListToArray Example</h3>
<!--- Find a list of users who wrote messages --->
<cfquery name = "GetMessageUser" datasource = "cfsnippets">
SELECT Username, Subject, Posted
FROM  Messages
</cfquery>
<cfset myList = ValueList(GetMessageUser.UserName)>
<p>My list is a list with <cfoutput>#ListLen(myList)#</cfoutput>
 elements.
<cfset myArrayList = ListToArray(myList)>
<p>My array list is an array with <cfoutput>#ArrayLen(myArrayList)#
 </cfoutput> elements.