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Asked: 2026-05-24T06:19:28+00:00

This is my code: returnStruct.myList = myList; returnStruct.first = trim(ListGetAt(myList,3)); returnStruct.last = trim(ListGetAt(myList,13)); returnStruct.address

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This is my code:

returnStruct.myList = myList;
returnStruct.first = trim(ListGetAt(myList,3));
returnStruct.last = trim(ListGetAt(myList,13));
returnStruct.address = trim(ListGetAt(myList,15));
returnStruct.city = trim(ListGetAt(myList,2));
returnStruct.state = trim(ListGetAt(myList,9));

Everything is working fine until myList hits empty values and then everything crashes.
I found a command “includeEmptyValues” that I can set to ‘yes’ but I am not familiar with it and the documentation of ColdFusion 9 isn’t the best I’ve come across.

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://cfquickdocs.com/cf9/#listgetat

    Previous versions of ColdFusion (and CF9 by default) counted consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter. So a list that looked like this:

    <cfset myList="a,b,,c,,d" />

    was considered to have four elements.

    Recently added is the “includeEmptyValues” attribute.

    listGetAt(list, position [, delimiters, includeEmptyValues ])

    So while

    <cfset myVar=listGetAt(myList,6) />

    will throw an error

    <cfset myVar=listGetAt(myList,6,",","true") />

    will successfully set myVar to d.

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