CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Searches a given list for a given regexp and returns the index number of the first item it finds in the list that matches the regexp. Returns 0 (zero) if not found.

Return Values:
Returns a number.

Example:

<cfset mylist = "this,that,other,thing">
<cfoutput>#ListReFindNoCase(mylist, ".th")#
</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Searches a given list for a given regexp and returns the index number of the first item found.
 * 
 * @param list      The list to search. (Required)
 * @param regexp      The regular expression to use. (Required)
 * @param delimiter      The list delimiter, defaults to a comma. (Optional)
 * @return Returns a number. 
 * @author Tony Kenny (tony@kenny.net) 
 * @version 1, May 26, 2003 
 */
function ListReFindNoCase(list, regexp) {
    var i = 1;
    var delimiter = ",";
    
    if(arrayLen(arguments) gte 3) delimiter = arguments[3];

    for (i=1; i le listLen(list, delimiter); i=i+1) {
        if ( ReFindNoCase(regexp, listGetAt(list, i, delimiter)) )     return i;
    }
    
    return 0;
}