Mike do a view source in the browser, you probably do have CRs and LFs but the browser looses them on display of course
Kym On 30/03/2010 8:51 PM, Mike Kear wrote: > > I'm building a CFC which will write a CFC. It will do some > processing, then output to my browser, the code in text form, for me > to copy and paste into my editor to be modified. The idea is for the > CFC i'm building to do a lot of the grunt work I do, then i spend my > time doing the tweaks on the code. > > It's a bit like ORM but I build quite a few CFCs for fairly common > purposes that don't always involve a database. > > Here's my question: how can I write a CFC method, which will output > formatted text? I know there's<pre> and<cfsavecontent> but they > aren't giving me the output with linefeeds etc. What have I > forgotten? I know I did this once, a long time ago but I'm dashed > if I can remember how i got the line feeds and formatting. > > For example here's the method that writes the header of the file, but > instead of producing a nicely formatted text block to the browser, it > puts it all in one line. : > > <cffunction name="Buildheader" access="public" returntype="string" > output="false" hint="Builds the file header text."> > <cfargument name="Filename" type="string" required="yes" /> > <cfset var headertext="" /> > > <cfsavecontent variable="headertext"><cfoutput> > <cfsilent> > <!---- > ========================================================================================================== > Filename: #Filename#.cfm > Description: > Date: #dateformat(now(), "d/mmm/yyyy")# > Author: Michael Kear > > Revision history: > > ========================================================================================================== > ---> > </cfoutput></cfsavecontent> > <cfreturn headertext /> > </cffunction> > > -- Yours, Kym Kovan mbcomms.net.au ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332427 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
