Thanks for chiming in Michael. Using ArrayToList would pass all three values as a single string. I'm looking for a generic way to pass each array element as an individual argument, regardless of how many there are. Take another look at the examples I gave.
Dave On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not exactly sure what you're asking but would some variation of this > work for you? > > SomeComponent.someMethod(ArrayToList(positionalArgs)); > > Of course you may need to qualify the list etc if you are passing strings, > but I think that suits your example. > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, enigment <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Say I have an array of values, arbitrary length, that I want to pass >> as the arguments to a method. >> >> For example, with this: >> positionalArgs = ['foo', 'bar', 42]; // this varies, may be any length >> I want to make this call: >> SomeComponent.someMethod('foo', 'bar', 42); >> >> Is there a positional equivalent to argumentCollection, or some other >> language construct that I don't know about to do this? If the >> arguments were in a structure, I could pass it as the >> argumentCollection, but I don't know how to do this by position in a >> clean way. >> >> Only thing I thought of is a switch statement with some finite number >> of cases, each of which calls the method with a specific number of >> arguments, like this (partial): >> case 2: >> SomeComponent.someMethod(positionalArgs[1], positionalArgs[2]); >> break; >> case 3: >> SomeComponent.someMethod(positionalArgs[1], positionalArgs[2], >> positionalArgs[3]); >> break; >> etc... >> >> Any thoughts? Thanks, >> >> Dave >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337901 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
