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.

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

String functions

SpanIncluding(string, set)

GetToken, SpanExcluding; "Caching parts of ColdFusion pages"in Chapter 13, "Designing and Optimizing a ColdFusion Application," in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide

<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>