i have never used this function, nor do i recall even being aware of it. has anyone used insert()? i didn't even know what it does based solely on its name. https://cfdocs.org/insert

The examples on that page make it pretty clear, no? It inserts one string into another at the specified position.

i wasn't saying i have reading comprehension difficulties, just that i don't recall even being aware of this BIF. just weird, been doing this awhile and it was 'new' to me

I suspect there are lots of BIFs I don't know -- and I did CFML day-in, day-out for about 15 years 😕

i mean it makes sense and all, but i never encountered the need to use it, or ended doing an alternate thing for all this time? i feel dirty now.

I don't recall ever needing to insert one string into another, based on position -- in over 40 years of software development 🙂 At the end, yes. In front of a string, yes. But both of those can be done by concatenation.

right

I guess if you find yourself writing

left(s1,n) & s2 & right(s1,len(s1)-n)

a lot, then

insert(s1,s2,n)

is kinda useful...

Functions without prefix refer to string functions, I guess