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weezerboy
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March 24, 2010
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Replace ampersand in URL

  • March 24, 2010
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How do I replace an ampersand (&) in my string with the word ' and '

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Mike&Pat

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MikeandPat

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    Correct answer Adam Cameron.

    A good thing to do when you find yourself asking "how do I do x in CF" is to have a look at the docs: they're pretty thorough.

    If you go to the docs and search on "replace", the replace() function is the first match:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7f42.html

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    Adam

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    Adam Cameron.Correct answer
    Inspiring
    March 24, 2010

    A good thing to do when you find yourself asking "how do I do x in CF" is to have a look at the docs: they're pretty thorough.

    If you go to the docs and search on "replace", the replace() function is the first match:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7f42.html

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    Adam

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    weezerboyAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 24, 2010

    Like this

    city is the original string to replace the & with 'and'.

    <CFSET city1=   #Replace(form.city,&,and)#>

    OR with quotes

    <CFSET city1=   #Replace(form.city,'&','and')#>

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    March 24, 2010

    The best way to find out these things is to try it!  One of those will simply error.  The other should work.

    Also: the pound signs are not needed there at all.

    Can I recommend you further your reading of the docs with these bits:

    Pound signs:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7fc3.html (including all the linked pages at the bottom)

    Strings:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec09af4-7fd1.html

    Really, I think you could benefit from (re?)reading all of the first three sections of "The CFML Programming Language":

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WS8f0cc78011fffa71866534d11cdad96e4e-8000.html

    And having a breeze over the whole CFML tag & function references would not hurt:

    Tags:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec17576-7ffe.html

    Functions:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7ff8.html

    Don't try to remember the whole lot, just get a feel for what CFML can do, so next time you have a question like this, you'll find yourself thinking "yeah... I seem to recall CFML can do something like that..." and it'll be a good place to start your investigations.

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    Adam

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