CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Searches a list for case-INsensitive Duplicates and returns a list of the duplicate items or an empty string if no dupes are found. Based on Jeff Howden's' ListDeleteDuplicates()

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

Example:<br />
<cfset myList = "Sister,Ghengis,Adonis,Osmisis,Frank,Zappa,sister,ghengis,adonis,osmisis,Frank,Zappa">

<cfoutput>
List of case-INsensitive dupes:
<br />#ListReturnDuplicatesNoCase(myList)#
</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Searches a list for case-INsensitive duplicates and returns a list of the duplicate items or an empty string if no dupes are found.
 * 
 * @param list      List to parse. (Required)
 * @param delimiter      List delimiter. Defaults to a comma. (Optional)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Gerald Guido (Gerald.Guido@gmail.com) 
 * @version 0, October 18, 2008 
 */
function ListReturnDuplicatesNoCase(list) {
    var i = 1;
    var delimiter = ',';
    var returnValue1 = '';
    var tmpList = list;

    if(arrayLen(arguments) GTE 2) delimiter = arguments[2];
    list = ListToArray(list, delimiter);
    for(i = 1; i LTE ArrayLen(list); i = i + 1) if(ListValueCountNoCase(tmpList, list[i]) GT 1 and not listFindNoCase(returnValue1,list[i],delimiter)) returnValue1 = ListAppend(returnValue1, list[i], delimiter);

    return returnValue1;
}