You can still use Evaluate, just don't use the structure dotted notation.
Evaluate("foo[""#quux#""]") should work.
At 04:50 PM 9/1/00 -0400, Rick Osborne wrote:
>Oh, one more reason for not using Evaluate() - structures can hold keys that
>aren't CF-Variable-Name-Compliant and Evaluate() can't handle them. For
>example, numeric struct keys will generate an error with Evaluate():
>
>The code:
>
>01: <CFSET foo=StructNew()>
>02: <CFSET quux=12345>
>03: <CFSET foo[quux]="b">
>04: <CFTRY>
>05: <!--- these work fine --->
>06: <CFSET brick=foo[quux]>
>07: <CFSET brick=foo["#quux#"]>
>08: <!--- this will break --->
>09: <CFSET brick=Evaluate("foo.#quux#")>
>10: <CFCATCH><CFOUTPUT>#CFCATCH.Message#</CFOUTPUT></CFCATCH>
>11: </CFTRY>
>
>The output:
>
> An error occurred while evaluating the expression:
> brick=Evaluate("foo.#quux#")
> Error near line 9, column 13.
> An error has occurred while processing the expression:
> foo.12345
> Invalid parser construct found on line 1 at position 4.
> ColdFusion was looking at the following text:
> .
> Invalid expression format. The usual cause is an error
> in the expression structure.
>
>-Rick
>
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