HTML form fields and special characters

[Alen]

How can I read the value of form fields with special characters such az comma,
space, doller sign, star, slash,... in their name?

When I dump the form <cfdump var="#form#"/> posted from a PDF form which has
fields like "16. employee/name" I can see the value. but when I try to access
the field even when I use evaluate function I get and error message that
special characters are not allowed in coldfusion variable names.

If cfdump can read the form fields value I should be able to it as well, the
question is HOW?
Amir

[mxstu]

There might be a better way, but did you try accessing the value like this:

<cfoutput>#form["16. employee/name"]#</cfoutput>

[Alen]

Thank you mxstu , it worked.

Someone else also give me a solution using structFind.

<cfloop collection="#form#" item="this_field">
<cfoutput>#this_field# = #StructFind(form, this_field)#<br></cfoutput>
</cfloop>

[mxstu]

Glad you solved it.

Yes, the syntax: form["16. employee/name"] is basically a shortcut for StructFind(). I'm not sure which syntax is preferred .. as of MX 7.