> In addition, rather than looping over the FIELDNAMES string, you might be
> better served by looping over the Form structure itself:
I knew there was a reason I read this list :)
That's one for my knowledge base...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:42 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Kooky Form Field/List question.
>
>
> > So, here's the problem. I can use the automatically-created
> > FORM.fieldnames list to get the field names onto the email
> > like this:
> >
> > <cfloop index="test" list="#FORM.fieldnames#" delimiters=",">
> > #test# : <br>
> > </cfloop>
> >
> > This code puts the names of the form field onto the email.
> > Easy. I can also test them for whether or not they're one of
> > my required fields, and not print them if they are. What I
> > can't do is print the VALUE of the form fields. Make sense?
> > I was hoping I could do something like this:
> >
> > <cfloop index="test" list="#FORM.fieldnames#" delimiters=",">
> > #test# : #FORM.#test## <br>
> > </cfloop>
> >
> > Yeah, but I can't. Any thoughts?
>
> Use the Evaluate function to determine the value of a variable whose name
> you don't know until runtime:
>
> #test#: #Evaluate("Form." & test)#
>
> In addition, rather than looping over the FIELDNAMES string, you might be
> better served by looping over the Form structure itself:
>
> <cfoutput>
> <cfloop collection="#Form#" item="i">
> #i#: #Evaluate("Form." & i)#
> </cfloop>
> </cfoutput>
>
> This way, if you have any duplicate field names, such as you'd get with
> checkbox arrays, you'll output the fieldname once, followed by a
> comma-delimited list of selected values.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
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