Stveve Wonderpets asked:

As I've seen many ways to try and do this, I'm coming to you to see how, and the fastest executing way to find the "" and put each paragraph into a struct or array?

I have to be honest. When I first responded to Steve, I completely spaced on the fact that he had a few alternatives already, and he was simply looking for the "best" way. I provided a few solutions myself and I thought I'd share them with my readers.

I began by taking his source data and simply creating a variable out of it.

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For the first method I suggested, I simply made use of the fact that the ColdFusion variable created above can be used like a Java String object. This means we have access to methods like split. So I first shared this:

<cfset p = text.split("<!-- pagebreak -->")> <cfdump var="#p#">

It doesn't get much easier than that. It is important to remember that the value pased to Spit should be a regex. If you wanted to match on "." for some reason you would (I assume - didn't test it!) need to escape it.

If using Java worries you for some reason, you can also make use of a CFLib UDF, Split. Despite being many more lines of CFML, in Steve's testing it ran just as fast. (Although I'd probably assume the Java method would be faster on larger strings.)