There's no simple way to do this (as far as I'm aware) in ColdFusion. BlueDragon has a very useful function - Render() - which will parse the contents of a variable, exactly as you describe.
But on ColdFusion, I've always handled cases like this by having my templates as flat files to be included; the variables within them get processed as normal. Seb Seb Duggan Web & ColdFusion Developer e: s...@sebduggan.com t: 07786 333184 w: http://sebduggan.com On 27 Dec 2008, at 13:14, Maya MacDonald wrote: > How can you display a variable within a variable? > > I have a client who needs to control the content of all email > notices that go out to their clients. > > Email notices have some dynamic content such as grabbing customer > name or account details. The value of the email notice content is > stored in a variable called #emailContent# and I would like it to > have a value of something like this (where it contains varibles > within itself): > > "Dear #customer#, > > Email content email content...your account expires on #expiryDate#." > > However, when the variable #emailContent# is outputted within a > CFMAIL tag the variables #customer# and #expiryDate# just get shown > as is with the hash marks. How can I output the variables within the > variable? > > Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317148 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
