<CFIF (isDefined("somevar") AND somevar IS "something")>
do something
<cfelse>
do nothing
</CFIF>
JUstin
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ruslan Sivak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:12 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: Short Circuit Evaluation
>
>
>I have had to write this kind of code over and over, and was wondering if
>there is a better way like in c++, where it does lazy evaluation.
>
>This is what I want:
>
><CFIF isDefined("somevar") AND somevar IS "something">
> do something
></CFIF>
>
>Of course this fails, since if the variable is not defined, CF stil checks
>the second condition. In languages like C++, it did lazy evaluation, so if
>the first condition was false, it didn't bother checking the second
>condition. This let people write things like
>
>open(FILE,"file") || die "Can't open file";
>
>So in CF I have to rewrite my above IF statement as 2 statements
>
><CFIF isDefined("somevar")>
> <CFIF somevar IS "something">
> do something
> </CFIF>
></CFIF>
>
>Is there a better way?
>
>Ruslan Sivak
>Technologist
>
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