On 8/15/01, Brook Davies penned:
>Hello World,
>
>I have a template which allows a user to build a criteria based selection.
>Somthing like where x=10 and/or z gte 100. After the user has created the
>expression it is stored in a database, then I need to pull it out and try
>to execute it within a cfif block.
>
>So I need to build a string like <cfif #thereVariable# #operator# #value#>
>and then actually execute this code. I Know I can do this if I write it to
>a file and then include the file the code will get executed. But is there
>any other way to do this other than writing to a file?
>
>Thanks for the help, btw I'm using 4.5.1....
Sure.
<cfset myexpression = "x = 10 and (z gte 5 or z lt 2)">
<cfset x = 10>
<cfset z = 6>
<cfif evaluate(myexpression)>
Yes
<cfelse>
No
</cfif>
Of course, I presume myexpression will be a query result.
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