Removing Words from string?

Hi,

If I have the following list:

<cfset deadWords = "tabs,tablets,caps,capsules,powder">

Code (markup):

...and I have have a simple string.

#searchQuery#

Code (markup):

What is the best and most efficent practise to remove ANY of the strings in the list? So after the process #searchQuery# shouldn't contain any of the words in #deadWords#.

Thanks

 

Came up with a solution for anyone interested

	<!--- dead words --->
	<cfset deadWords = "the,it,and,now,when,how,do">
	
	<!--- limit to 50 chars --->
	<cfset searchQuery 		= left(ARGUMENTS.search,50)>	
	<!--- put words in array --->
	<cfset words		 	= listtoarray(searchQuery," ")>
	<!--- reset --->
	<cfset searchQuery 		= "">		
	
			<cfoutput>
	<!--- --->
	<cfloop index="idx" from="1" to="#arrayLen(words)#">
		<!--- any dead words? --->
		<cfif NOT listFindNoCase(deadWords, words[idx])>
			<cfset searchQuery = searchQuery & words[idx]>
		</cfif>
	</cfloop>

PHP:

 

seems to me you could do the following..

<cfset deadwords = "tabs,tablets,caps,capsules,powder">
<cfset searchQuery= replacelist(searchQuery,deadwords,"")>

Code (markup):

i'm not entirely sure on how fast the replacelist function works.. but this seems to cut down on code pretty well

 

Yes looks better to me!

 

I'm glad we had this discussion!