looping over a structure using cfscript

[zubair]

Hi,

I am passing form variables to a function. What i want is to be abled to loop
throught the form variables which is a structure and then for each value in the
structure do a trim.

I have something like this but i don't think it is right

for (i=1; i lte structcount(arguments.form); i=i+1 ) {
//writeoutput(arguments. & "<Br>");
// need to trim the current value
}

Cany anyone please help or point me in the right direction?
Thanks

[PaulH]

you need a for in loop. be careful as you're going to get ALL of the form scope
(fieldnames, submit button, etc.) when you do this.


for (i IN arguments.form) {
writeoutput("#arguments.form[i]#<br>");
}

[zubair]

Hi thanks for the reply. Is there also a way of deleting the fieldnames, submit
button etc attributes from the form struct as you mentioned? Also is it a case
of just using

trim(arguments.form)

to automatically trim all from variables?

Thanks

[PaulH]

you'd probably want to either copy the form scope to another structure (if
you're going to delete these using StructDelete function) or ignore them.
beyond the standard key for FIELDNAMES, everything else depends on your form.

no, you'll have to trim each value in the structure.

for (i IN arguments.form) {
if (i NEQ "FIELDNAMES")
writeoutput("#trim(arguments.form[i])#<br>");
}

[zubair]

Thanks,

i'm doing this. Do you think this is a good way of doing it?

Thanks for your input


<!--- function to get the event and outcome dates --->
<cffunction name="trimVariables" access="public" output="Yes"
returntype="struct" hint="I trim whitespace of variables">
<cfargument name="form" required="Yes" type="struct">

<cfscript>

if ( StructIsEmpty(arguments.form) is 'NO' ) {
//writeoutput("form structure is not empty");

excludedFormElements = 'FIELDNAMES';


// loop through the form struct
for (i IN arguments.form) {
// make sure current key it structure being looped exists
if ( StructKeyExists(arguments.form, i) ) {
writeoutput("<br>#i# - #arguments.form#<br>");
// delete from the struct items in the
excludedFormElements list
if ( ListContains(excludedFormElements, i, ',') ) {
writeoutput("exclude this key");
temp = structdelete(arguments.form, i);

} else {
writeoutput("fine");
// trim variable
//arguments.form = "hi";
arguments.form = trim(arguments.form);
//if ( arguments.form eq 1 ) {
//arguments.form = "zzzzzzzz";
//}
}
}

}


}
</cfscript>

<cfreturn arguments.form>

</cffunction>

[CJM]

You could delete the fieldnames key at the beginning of your code eliminating the re-occuring if statement.

<cfscript>
if ( structKeyExists(form,"fieldnames") structDelete(form,"fieldnames");
</cfscript>