That works!
Thanks,
Jamie
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:03:55 -0700, in cf-talk you wrote:
>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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