You must have all "var" variables at the top. My method is to "var local=structNew()" at the top, and I can dynamically assign "local.the_day=1" later on.
Oblio -----Original Message----- From: daniel kessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: error in cfscript I'm receiving an error that I don't understand: Local variable the_day on line 10 must be grouped at the top of the function body. <cfscript> function makeDate(a_day,a_month,a_year,a_type){ var the_type = "begin"; // this is before the other inits cause it's necessary for year if (a_type NEQ '' AND a_type NEQ undefined){ the_type = a_type; }; var the_day = 1; var the_month = 1; var the_year = 1966; if(the_type NEQ 'begin'){ the_year = (year(now()))+10; } if (a_day NEQ ''){the_day = a_day;}; if (a_month NEQ ''){the_month = a_month;}; if (a_year NEQ ''){the_year = a_year;}; return CreateODBCDate(createDate(the_year,the_month,the_day)); } </cfscript> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268474 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
