cffile and read

[rottmanja]

I am working on a simple paperless transaction system, and for some reason I
can not get the attribute action='read' with cffile to work. I have read over
hte live docs and they are not very helpful. I have the variable attribute set
to test. But when I run the page it displays all the text in the .txt doc. How
can I set it up so that it only reads the var set to test.

[kim il sung]

i dont undestand what you want. since you have not posted trouble code i can
only send sample code.

cffile is very simple to use. use cftry/cfcatch to trap file reading errors.

<cfset my_file="">
<cftry>
<cffile action="READ" file="d:\wwwroot\myfile.txt" variable="my_file">
<cfcatch type="Any">
error occured while reading file
</cfcatch>
</cftry>

<cfif my_file neq "">
file content:
#my_file#
<cfelse>
file content:
file reading failed
</cfif>

cheers, kim

[rottmanja]

I got it to work after going over a few things in my head. But how ever it
brings up another problem that I have seen with other aspects of cf. I have
attached my code below so you can understand what i am talking about. When I
use cfdirectory to create a new directory based on the file that cffile reads,
it creates a directory with weird chars after the data from the read file. EX.
it creates a directory with S050123 and two boxes behind it. The S050123 is
correct, but the boxes should not be there. (note I can not paste the boxes in
here for some reason)

<!-- Checks directory for .txt files -->
<cfdirectory action="list" name="chkDir" directory="#dir#" filter="*.txt">
<!-- Setting some Vars -->
<cfparam name="fileExists" default="no">
<!-- Reads files for file number -->
<cffile action="Read"
file="#dir##chkDir.Name#"
variable="readText">
<cfif DirectoryExists("#dir##readText#")is "NO">
<cfif FileExists("#dir##chkDir.Name#") is "Yes">
<cfset fileExists="yes">
<!-- Creates a new directory -->
<cfdirectory action="create"
directory="#dir##readText#" mode="">

<!-- Moves Files to the newly create directory -->
<cffile
action = "move"
source = "#dir##chkDir.Name#"
destination = "#dir##readText#"
mode = "777">
<!-- Renames the .txt file to the file number -->
<cffile
action = "rename"
source = "#dir##readText#"
destination = "#dir##readText#"
mode = "777">

</cfif>
</cfif>
<cfoutput query="getDir">
The files (#getDir.Name# exist on the server and have been moved to)<br>
<br>
The files are (#readText#)
</cfoutput><br>

[rottmanja]

Well I figured it out afterwards, I had forgotten to use the trim fucntion.