Q3000 Is there an IsAlphanumeric function in ColdFusion?

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Q3000 Is there an IsAlphanumeric function in ColdFusion?

No, but you can use regular expressions to check this fairly easily.

<cfif REFind("[^A-Za-z0-9]",mystring,1) gt 0>
 This string contains characters that are not alphanumeric.
<cfelse>
 This string contains only alphanumeric characters.
</cfif>

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