I'm trying to format a currency value to output in GBP, but I'm having trouble trying to change from $ to £. I currently have the following...
numberFormat(TOTAL_VALUE_GBP,'_$,9.99')
What do I need to do to output as a £?
You can use lsCurrencyFormat() function. First use setLocale() to set locale information as the one you want (English (UK)) here. Then use lsCurrencyFormat().
<cfset setLocale('English (UK)')>
<cfset amountInGBP = lsCurrencyFormat(100000, "local")>
<cfoutput>#amountInGBP#</cfoutput>
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I'm exporting a query to an Excel file using cfspeadsheet. It's working and creating the Excel sheet. However, the problem is that one of the columns, ie card_number, contains a 15 digit number, which is displayed like this: 4.5421E+15. Is there a way I can display the full number instead: 4254218068670980 ?
<!--- create manual query for demo --->
<cfset qData = queryNew("")>
<cfset queryAddColumn(qData, "NumericCol", "BigInt",["4254218068670980"])>
<cfset queryAddColumn(qData, "StringCol", "Varchar",["4254218068670980"])>
<cfset queryAddColumn(qData, "DecimalCol", "Decimal",["4254218068670980"])>
<!--- export to file --->
<cfspreadsheet action="write"
filename="c:/path/to/myFile.xls"
query="qData"
overwrite="true">
You need to define and use a format for the cell to show complete number. Below is a sample code snippet for your code:
<cfscript>
theFile=GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath()) & "new_data.xls";
//Create a new Excel spreadsheet object.
theSheet = SpreadsheetNew("Expenses");
//Set the value a cell.
SpreadsheetSetCellValue(theSheet,"4254218068670980",1,4);
//Set value into another cell.
SpreadsheetSetCellValue(theSheet,"4254218068670980",2,4);
// Define a format class for for number.
longNum=StructNew();
longNum.dataformat = "0";
//Now use this class to format cell
SpreadsheetFormatCell(theSheet,longNum,2,4);
</cfscript>
There are many supported formats available; for a complete list you may check here.
Also, just like SpreadsheetFormatCell you may want to use SpreadsheetFormatColumn or other related functions.
(Too long for comments...)
FWIW, CFSpreadsheet is designed for very simple exports, without a lot of bells and whistles. If you need special formatting, you must use spreadsheet functions instead.
The closest equivalent to your current code is probably the SpreadsheetAddRows(sheet, query) function. It populates a worksheet with the data in the supplied query object. As Viv's answer mentions, you can then format the columns as desired. For example, if you want the value to be treated as text, use {dataformat = "#"}:
<cfscript>
SpreadsheetAddRows(theSheet, qData);
SpreadsheetFormatColumns(theSheet, {dataformat = "#"}, "1-3");
SpreadSheetWrite(theSheet, "c:/path/to/myFile.xls", true);
</cfscript>
As an aside, the examples in the documentation are not always the best or cleanest. Consider them a starting point, rather than using the code exactly "as is" ..
Using coldfusion I would like to write a string to a txt document but it needs to be in a specific format
The code I am using at the moment is:
<!---SET STRING LENGTH FOR EACH--->
<cfset initial = "#LJustify(initial, 35)#">
<cfset lname_final = "#LJustify(lname_final, 35)#">
<cfset accounttype_final = "#LJustify(accounttype_final, 35)#">
<cfset amount_final = "#LJustify(amount_final, 35)#">
<cfset date_final = "#LJustify(date_final, 35)#">
<!---SET TOTAL STRING--->
<cfset total_string = "#initial##lname_final##accounttype_final##amount_final##date_final#">
#accountholder#<br>
#accountnumber#<br>
#accounttype#<br>
#bankname#<br>
#branch#<br>
#amount#<br>
#date#<br>
#initial#<br>
#lname_final#<br />
#accounttype_final#<br>
#amount_final#<br />
#date_final#<br>
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890<br />
#total_string#<br>
When I run the code however it gives me the total_string as:
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
G Sinclair CH 27500 01201212
I would like to achieve the following:
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
GSinclair CH 2750001201212
So I need to space the values a certain amount from each other in a neat format within the txt document
So for example in the txt the rows should look like this:
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
GSinclair CH 2750001201212
DGreen OTH 3456001201212
HRamsbottom SAV 0581620016181
GSmith CC 6326378734827
What is the best way to achieve this, should I loop an empty space depending on the length of each variable within the string or is there and easier way to achieve this?
Thanks in advance
Well you're mixing the concepts of "plain text" (total_string) and "HTML" (the <br>) there. And you seem to be viewing your output in a browser, not in a text editor, because all the padding is there, just how you wanted it. However one of the behaviours of HTML rendering is that sequences of whitespace are collapsed by default. You can prevent this from happening in a browser by wrapping your string in <pre> tags.
However if you're wanting the output to be plain text, you should be saving it as a text document and inspecting it with a text editor, not with a browser.
You can also use the CHR for the tab space (#chr(9)#) to force a text editor to insert a tab. This won't help the browser (they ignore the tab command in general), but it will format the output for you in a text editor.
Use
To make Text in the file as you need.
Like,
#accountholder##LF#
#accountnumber##TAB##TAB##accounttype#
This should be easy, but I'm finding it difficult.
I just want to find whether a substring exists anywhere in a string. In my case, whether the name of a website exists in the title of a product.
My code is like this:
#FindNoCase("Amazon.com", "Google Chromecast available at Amazon")#
The above returns a 0 which is correct because the entire substring "Amazon.com" doesn't exist in the main string. But some of it does, namely the "Amazon" part.
How could I achieve what I'm trying to do which is just see if ANY of the substring (at least more than 2 character in length) exists in the main string?
So I need something like FindOneOf() but actually "find at least three of". It should then look at the word "Amazon" in the product title and check if at least 3 characters in the sequence of "Amazon.com" exists. When it sees that "Ama" exists, then it just needs to return a true value. Can it be done using the existing built-in functions somehow?
Update: Very simple solution. I used Left("amazon", 3).
There's a lot of danger in false positives, like if someone was buying the Alabama state flag.
Because of store names that contain spaces, this is a little tricky (Wal Mart is often written with a space).
If your string always contains at [store], you can extract the store name by finding the last at in the sentence and creating a string by chopping off everything else.
Because it looks for occurrences of at only as a whole word, there's no danger with store names such as Beats Audio, or Sam's Meat Shop. I can't think of any any stores with the word at in the name. While that would technically trip it up, there's much lower risk, and you can do a pre-replace on such store names.
<cfset mystring = "Google Chromecast available at Amazon">
<cfset SellerName = REReplaceNoCase(mystring,".*\b(?:at)\b(?!.*\b(?:at)\b)\s*","")>
<cfoutput>Seller: #Sellername#</cfoutput>
You can then do your comparisons much more safely.
Per your comment, If you know all possible patterns, you can still obtain the data if you want to (false positives can either be embarrassing or catastrophic, depending on the action). If you know the stores you're working with, you can use a regex to pull out the string like this
<cfset mystring = "Google Chromecast available at Amazon.co.uk">
<cfset SellerName = REReplaceNoCase(mystring,".*\b((Google|Amazon|Wal[\W]*Mart|E[\W]*bay)(\.[a-z]+)*)\b","\1")>
<cfoutput>Seller: #Sellername#</cfoutput>
The only part you need to update is the pipe-delimited list You might add K-Mart as K[\W]*Mart the [\W]* permits any special character or space so it covers kMart, K-Mart, k*Mart, but not Kwik-E-Mart.
Update #2, per more comments
<cfset mystring = "Google Chromecast available at Toys-R-US">
<cfset SellerNameRE = REReplace(rsProduct.sellername,"[\W]+","[\W]*","ALL")>
<cfset TheSellerName = REReplaceNoCase(mystring,".*\b((#sellernameRE#)(\.[a-z]+)*)\b","\1")>
<cfoutput>Seller: #TheSellername# (#SellerNameRE#)</cfoutput>
This replaces any symbols with the wildcard character so that symbols aren't required so that if something says Wal*Mart, it will still match WalMart.
You could also load a seperate column with "Regex Names" so that you're not doing this each time.
So your table would look something like
SellerID SellerName RegexName
1 Wal-Mart Wal[\W]*Mart
2 Toys-R-US Toys[\W]*R[\W]*US
<cfset mystring = "Google Chromecast available at Toys-R-US">
<cfset TheSellerName = REReplaceNoCase(mystring,".*\b((#rsProduct.RegexName#)(\.[a-z]+)*)\b","\1")>
<cfoutput>Seller: #TheSellername# (#SellerNameRE#)</cfoutput>
Solved it by doing this
#FindNoCase(left("Amazon.com", 3), "Google Chromecast available at Amazon")#
Yes there is potential it won't do what I need in cases where the seller name less than 3 characters long. But I think its rare enough to be ok.
I'm a bit stumped on this one..
I currently have a string.
Please enter your variable.firstname here
What i would like to do is find the variable.firstname in the string and convert it to be used as #variable.firstname#
Im using CF8, and ive looked at using findNoCase() but the variable.firstname portion can appear anywhere. I am also trying to use this in a Coldfusion Custom Tag as its to simply display the firstname of the user that could be dynamically populated.
I cant use any other functionality to change it IE = variable['firstname] because the variable could be the result of a dynamic variable i pass in and the query for the content will reside within the custom tag.
<cfset yourNewString = replace(yourOldString,'variable.firstname',
'##variable.firstname##', 'all')>
Note the double pound signs.
I cant use any other functionality to change it IE =
variable['firstname] because the variable could be the result of a
dynamic variable i pass in and the query for the content will reside
within the custom tag.
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're saying here but if you're saying that variables.firstname is coming from another variable and the .firstname is the dynamic part you could still use array notation.
<cfset myName = "Travis">
<cfset yourName = "user125264">
<cfset myCustomVariable = "myName">
<cfoutput>Hi, My name is #variables[myCustomVariable]#. </cfoutput>
<cfset myCustomVariable = "yourName">
<cfoutput>Your name is #variables[MyCustomVariable]#.</cfoutput>
Output: Hi, My name is Travis. Your name is user125264.
If that isn't what you meant, I apologize.
If you're trying to replace variable.firstname with #variables.firstname# and then also get the value of that variable, you'll need to do the replace <cfset yourNewString = replace(yourOldString,'variable.firstname',
'##variables.firstname##', 'all')> and then wrap the resulting string in an evaluate() function (and an inner de() to prevent CF from evaluating everything): <cfset evaluatedString = evaluate(de(yourNewstring))>.
If there are more variables besides variable.firstname that need this kind of translation, you'll need to get into regex with reReplace() to catch them all in one statement. My regex is rusty, so you'll need to Google that bit on your own. ;o)
How would I use use a string function to select everything in a variable after the last "/"
http://domain.com/g34/abctest.html
So in this case I would like to select "abctest.html"
Running ColdFusion 8.
Any suggestions?
Um, a bit strange to give very similar answer within few days, but ListLast looks as most compact and straightforward approach:
<cfset filename = ListLast("http://domain.com/g34/abctest.html","/") />
And yes, IMO you should start with this page before asking such questions on SO.
Joe I'd use the listToArray function, passing the "/" as the delimiter, get the length of the array and get the value in the last slot. See sample below
<cfset str = "http://domain.com/g34/abctest.html"/>
<cfset arr = ListToArray(str,"/","false")/>
<cfset val = arr[ArrayLen(arr)]/>
<cfoutput>#str# : #val#</cfoutput>
produces
http://domain.com/g34/abctest.html : abctest.html