You can also use the SetVariable function if you wanted to avoid the
syntax magic of <cfset "#var#" = "some value">.
Jeremy
On 3/5/07, Steven Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok I'll let you in on it... heh. Ok so I have a configuration xml file
and I want to be able to dynamically create structs and stick them in
the applications configuration variable by just editing the xml file.
I can't go into it in detail at the moment but, I'll follow up with a
blog post about why and how I'm using this.
-Steven
On 3/5/07, Gurevich, Gerry (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well I would want to ask and argue not to do this...but I'll bite my
> tongue.
>
> Why not create a superstructure to hold this. Then you could do
> something like:
> <cfset superstruct=structnew()>
> <cfset structVarName = "myStruct" />
>
> <cfset superstruct[structVarName] = StructNew()/>
>
> <cfset keyVariable = "steven.ross" />
> <cfset theValue = "a name" />
>
> <cfset superstruct[structVarName][keyVariable] = theValue />
>
> I have not tested this, but it should be close to right.
>
> Come to think of it, you might even see if you could use "variables"
> instead of the superstruct. I think that might work.
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 4:21 PM
> To: ACFUG ColdFusion Discussion
> Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] dynamic structs/variable
>
> ok so for whatever reason (I'd rather not hear arguments why not to do
> this) I want to try to do this:
>
> <cfset structVarName = "myStruct" />
>
> <cfset "#structVarName#" = StructNew()/>
>
> <cfset keyVariable = "steven.ross" />
> <cfset theValue = "a name" />
>
> <cfset structVarName[keyVariable] = theValue />
>
> the last part is the part I can't get to work... tired all sorts of
> flavors of evaluate, and I would have included a few examples of what
> I have tried but, figured that would confuse the issue. Any help would
> be appreciated.
>
> -Steven
>
>
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