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April 6, 2010
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ValueList and dashes

  • April 6, 2010
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I am not sure if this is even an issue yet, but was wondering if someone can help me out. I have a simple form on my site that allows my client to mass email all the players in a given team or division. I retrieve the emails from the database and store them as a variable using valuelist, as I wanted my list of emails to be separated by semicolons for use with CFMail. Then I simply feed the variable into a BCC field in the CFMail tag. I was outputting the list to visually verify the results and noticed that whenever a players email comes up with a dash mark in it (example: peter-griffen@name.com) the list will break and wrap at the dash mark. Is there any way to prevent this and just have a continuous list with no breaks in it?

I have yet to test this in the CFMail tag. Does it matter if the string behaves this way? I figured it should just be a continuous string but maybe I am mistaken. Also, do the emails have to be separated by a semicolon or will a simple comma suffice?

Thanks!

T

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    Correct answer ilssac

    That is your browser's doing this not anything ColdFusion is doing.

    You have a very long string, one too long to display on one line I presume.  Thus the browser needs to make a choice where it will wrap the string.  Its first choice would be a space or other white space character.  But I doubt your string has any of those.  So it is falling back on a secondary choice, the hyphen, aka a dash mark.

    If you care, use something like the <pre>...<pre> tag to tell the browser to output the string as is without any HTML formating or wrapping.

    Otherwise just go ahead and use it in your <cfmail...> tag.  It is not trying to display the long string, just use it as data.

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    ilssac
    ilssacCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    April 6, 2010

    That is your browser's doing this not anything ColdFusion is doing.

    You have a very long string, one too long to display on one line I presume.  Thus the browser needs to make a choice where it will wrap the string.  Its first choice would be a space or other white space character.  But I doubt your string has any of those.  So it is falling back on a secondary choice, the hyphen, aka a dash mark.

    If you care, use something like the <pre>...<pre> tag to tell the browser to output the string as is without any HTML formating or wrapping.

    Otherwise just go ahead and use it in your <cfmail...> tag.  It is not trying to display the long string, just use it as data.

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    Anonymous
    April 6, 2010

    Yes, of course.... a pre tag (whodothunk). That worked and I can see the output is undisturbed. Thank you. Does it matter whether you seperate the email addresses by semicolon or comma when using cfmail?

    Cheers,

    TC

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    April 6, 2010
    Does it matter whether you seperate the email addresses by semicolon or comma when using cfmail?

    There's two things I recommend doing when faced with questions like that:

    a) consult the docs: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Tags_m-o_01.html#2355015;

    b) try it.

    A bit of reading and a bit of experimentation is a good way to find stuff out.

    --

    Adam

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