ColdFusion ListToArray – includeEmptyField
Most ColdFusion developers have probably realized at some point that ListToArray ignores empty values between delimiters altogether. What I mean is that "a,,,b,c,d" would return an array with only 4 items in it, rather than 6 items with two of them being empty. This has been frustrating to say the least. ColdFusion 8 to the rescue, ListToArray now has a third arguments "includeEmptyField" that defaults to false, but if true will not ignore empty values. See the following code for an example:
ColdFusion:
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<cfset letters="a,,,b,c,d" />
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<cfdump var="#listToArray(letters,',',true)#" label="listToArray(letters,',',true)" />
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<cfdump var="#listToArray(letters,',',false)#" label="listToArray(letters,',',false)" />
The above code results in the following output. Nothing unexpected here, but a welcome addition nonetheless.
