It's because you have a pound sign inside of a cfoutput block. This is a
special character for coldfusion to reference a variable. Either escape the
# by doubling it up - ##, or just leave it out. It will work fine without
#'s for representing hex values.
-Bill
www.brainbox.tv
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gina K. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 3:19 PM
Subject: Newbie-CF trying to process Hex numbers :-)
> Hi all,
>
> Have been learning CF, and going through the book ColdFusion 4.0 Web
Application
> Construction Kit. Short story is I got bored with white background and
black
> text, and started doing my own app instead of the example in the book,
using
> background colors, text colors, and CSS, etc.
>
> Okay, now I have a problem ;) CF is trying to process my hex numbers, and
I
> can't figure out how to fix it. I am trying to update records, using
> #Trim(ColumnName)#. My code can be found here:
>
> http://www.sitediva.com/code.txt
>
> When I passed the ContactID to this page through a link on another page, I
got
> this error:
>
> ---------------------------------
> Error Diagnostic Information
> Just in time compilation error
>
> Invalid parser construct found on line 38 at position 23. ColdFusion was
looking
> at the following text:
>
> "
> Invalid expression format. The usual cause is an error in the expression
> structure.
> The last successfully parsed CFML construct was static text occupying
document
> position (29:28) to (38:15).
>
> The specific sequence of files included or processed is:
> C:\AddressBook\update_biz_form.cfm
> -----------------------------------
>
> So I go to the line, and it's the <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
tag,
> the " after the first hex number. I stripped out the hex numbers, then it
gets
> stuck on the next one, <tr bgcolor="#990000"> ...
>
> I can't find anything in the book that talks about this, can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
> Gina
>
>
>
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