SpanIncluding

Description

Gets characters from a string, from the beginning to a character that is not in a specified set of characters. The search is case-sensitive.

Returns

A string; characters from string, from the beginning to a character that is not in set.

Category

String functions

Function syntax

SpanIncluding(string, set)

See also

GetToken, SpanExcluding; Caching parts of ColdFusion pagesin Designing and Optimizing a ColdFusion Application in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide

Parameters

Parameter Description

string

A string or a variable that contains the search string.

set

A string or a variable that contains a set of characters. Must contain one or more characters.

Example

<h3>SpanIncluding Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.myString")>
<p>Your string was <cfoutput>#FORM.myString#</cfoutput>
<p>Your set of characters was <cfoutput>#FORM.mySet#</cfoutput>
<p>Your string, until the characters in the set have been found, is:
<cfoutput>#SpanIncluding(FORM.myString, FORM.mySet)#</cfoutput>
</cfif>

<p>Returns characters of a string, from beginning to a character 
that is not in set. The search is case-sensitive. <form action = "spanincluding.cfm" method="post"> <p>Enter a string: <br><input type = "Text" name = "myString" value = "Hey, you!"> <p>And a set of characters: <br><input type = "Text" name = "mySet" value = "ey,H"> <br><input type = "Submit" name = ""> </form>

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