Don't forget you don't need evaluate to get form fields. Change
evaluate("form.#itemname#") to form[itemName].======================================================================= Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:00 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Replacing Commas in a Form Field to keep list > from Bombing > > > Having to remove commas from a writer's story isn't exactly > the best way to > approach this. > > <cfset FormFieldList = ListAppend(FormFieldList, > evaluate("form.#ItemName#"))> > > Is FormFieldList really supposed to contain the _contents_ of the form > fields? Seems rather redundant. The problem you run into is > that if any of > the form field contents contains a comma, you get unexpected results, > possibly errors. In any case, you might fix this by using an > odd character > to delimit this list. Choose an extended or an unprintable > ASCII character, > something like Chr(233) (whatever that is). > > <cfset ffldelim = Chr(233)> > <cfset FormFieldList = ListAppend(FormFieldList, > Evaluate("form.#ItemName#"), "#ffldelim#")> > > Then, whenever you work with this list, make sure you > remember to use that > delimiter. > > Jim > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:49 PM > Subject: Replacing Commas in a Form Field to keep list from Bombing > > > > Hello, > > > > I've been assigned the task to fix A news app which takes > uploaded stories > > (among other things that is why it is all dynamic) blows up > when users > have > > a comma in their story. I am completely new to the code > and a little > (maybe > > a lot) lost. > > The user enters the Headline, Writer, and Story in a form, > when their is > no > > commas in story all works fine, but when there is commas it errors: > > An error occurred while evaluating the expression: > > > > > > #ListGetAt(DBFieldList,num)# > > > > The code that is sending the commas as separate list items is: > > <cfloop list="#QGetContentItem.ContentItemFieldList#" > index="CurrentItem" > > delimiters=":"> <cfset > ItemName=ListGetAt(CurrentItem,1,';')> <cfset > > FormFieldList=ListAppend(FormFieldList,evaluate("form.#ItemName#"))> > <cfset > > DBFieldList=ListAppend(DBFieldList,ItemName)> </cfloop> > > > > so I tried > > <cfset NoCommas=#Replace("ItemName",",","^","ALL")> > > so as to use a less often carat character and remove the > commas, but am > > completely stuck > > after trying to put it in all kinds of places. > > Any Takers? > > Thanks! > > Dave > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
