A better expression?

[alecken]

I heard that there is a better way than doing this, can anyone tell me? Thanks you!

<CFIF (st_addr["City"] NEQ "Ohio") OR (st_addrs["City"] NEQ "San Jose")>

[Owainnorth]

Where'd you hear that?

[Dan_Bracuk]

Hard to say anything without some context.  What is st_addr?  Where does that line show up in your code?  Is there a cfelseif or cfelse tag as well?

[Fernis]

If st_addr and st_addrs are meant to be the same, i.e. there's a typo in the example, ... then in your case,

<CFIF (st_addrs["City"] NEQ "Ohio") OR (st_addrs["City"] NEQ "San Jose")>

is just without a point, since it will always produce a TRUE result with any values of st_addrs["City"].

The value is always either not "ohio" or not "san jose".

-Fernis

[LyndonPatton]

<cfif "Ohio,San Jose" Does Not Contain st_addrs["City"]>

Does it with a single compare and is very readable; if that's what your after that is...

[Fernis]

> <cfif "Ohio,San Jose" Does Not Contain st_addrs["City"]>

> Does it with a single compare and is very readable; if that's what your after that is...

This would not work properly, since it does a string comparison, not a list item comparison.

<cfif "New York,Boston" does not contain "York"> would be a true condition.

Use NOT ListContainsNoCase() instead.

-Fernis

[LyndonPatton]

Yes, it's  true that the list does not contain the value. OP seems to have lost interest, with info provided this returns desired result.

[Amiya_Padhi]

The below is also one of the possible way..

<cfset cityList="Ohio,San Jose">
<cfif ListFindNoCase(cityList,st_addrs["City"])>
................
................
................
</cfif>

[Fernis]

Amiya,

Oh yes, definitely prefer ListFindNoCase instead of ListContains, that was what I meant, but misthought it somehow 🙂 Otherwise I would've just corrected a wrong example with another wrong example

-Fernis