Rob

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• ColdFusion 8 Per-Application Settings Get Partially Cached (And There's Nothing You Can Do About It)

  Posted on Sep 10, 2009 at 3:35 PM

  I am having a similar issue. I have specified a per-application customtags path in my application. For the most part it is working just fine, however, when custom tags are being used within CFC methods or scheduled tasks, I'm gettting an exception saying that it cannot find the custom tag. I noti... read more »

• Ask Ben: Parsing CSV Strings With Javascript Exec() Regular Expression Command

  Posted on Jul 21, 2009 at 3:18 PM

  I'm not actually working with typical CSV data. I'm working with a string where there are a number of name-value pairs separated by semicolons. I want to split the string by these semicolons, except where the semicolon is inside of double quotes. Does this make it more clear?... read more »

• Ask Ben: Parsing CSV Strings With Javascript Exec() Regular Expression Command

  Posted on Jun 29, 2009 at 11:08 AM

  Ben, Yes, I'm passing in the colon as the delimiter parameter. The problem is that in your regular expression search, quoted values assume the quoted value is surrounded by delimiters. In this case, we have a quoted delimiter "Test;", but this is preceeded by 'ChartName = '. This results in: [0... read more »

• Ask Ben: Parsing CSV Strings With Javascript Exec() Regular Expression Command

  Posted on Jun 26, 2009 at 1:03 PM

  What if you wanted to parse a string that contained a delimiter, but except for circumstances where it was contained in quotes: Eg. 'ChartHeight = 400;ChartName = "Test;";ChartWidth = 600'; Here, my delimiter is the colon, but I have quoted values that don't span the distance between actualy delim... read more »