You have to do your VAR statements before anything else.
Try it this way:
function pad(str, length, padChar) {
var strLen = len(trim(str));
var difference = length - strLen;
str = trim(str);
if (strLen GT length) {
....
Shawn Grover
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:27 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: What's wrong with this simple UDF?
function pad(str, length, padChar) {
str = trim(str);
var strLen = len(str);//<--##This is the error line##
var difference = length - strLen;
if (strLen GT length) {
newStr = str;
} else {
newStr = str & repeatstring(padChar, difference);
}
return newstr;
}
Here's the error I'm getting:
==========
Just in time compilation error
Invalid parser construct found on line 8 at position 2. ColdFusion was
looking at the following text:
var
Invalid expression format. The usual cause is an error in the
expression structure.
==========
BTW, it doesn't seem to help do declare:
var strLen = '';
strLen = trim(str);
Thanks,
Jamie
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