How to insert multiple list item as separate records

Question

I have a form with a list field in which user can select
multiple item <select multiple="multiple"><option
value></option></select>. My problem is that I don't
know how to do an insert sql operation that puts every selected
item on the list field into a separate record in a database table.
I think that first I should get it to know how many item was
selected from the list, than write the insert into statement
between loop tags which loops the operation until every item has
inserted. I'm not sure about it and even if I'm right, I don't know
how to code it. Could someone show me a sample code for such a
"problem"?

Answer 1

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The ScareCrow wrote:
uh, depending on the db (say it's sql server) you might want
to swap the loop &
cfquery to make that one big insert rather than a bunch of
cfqueries.
The following approach will work with just about any db and
only uses once connection
<cfquery>
insert into sometable
(field1, field2, etc)
<cfloop list = "#somelist#" item = "thisitem">
select distinct #thisitem#, 'something else', etc
from some_small_table
<cfif listfind(somelist, thisitem) lt
listlen(somelist)>
union
</cfif>
</cfloop>
</cfquery>