Here is my code to output a query to a spreadsheet.
<cfscript>
//Use an absolute path for the files. --->
theDir=GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath());
theFile=theDir & "getTestInv.xls";
//Create an empty ColdFusion spreadsheet object. --->
theSheet = SpreadsheetNew("invoicesData");
//Populate the object with a query. --->
SpreadsheetAddRows(theSheet,getTestInv);
</cfscript>
<cfset format = StructNew()>
<cfset format.dataformat = "#,###0.00">
<cfset SpreadsheetFormatColumn(theSheet,format,10)
<cfspreadsheet action="write" filename="#theFile#" name="theSheet" sheetname="getTestInv" overwrite=true>
The error I am getting is:
Invalid CFML construct found on line 125 at column 32.
ColdFusion was looking at the following text:
,
The CFML compiler was processing:
An expression beginning with /", on line 125, column 30.This message is usually caused by a problem in the expressions structure.
A cfset tag beginning on line 125, column 4.
A cfset tag beginning on line 125, column 4.
125: <cfset format.dataformat = "#,###0.00">
For some reason, it doesn't like the comma, even though it is valid according to the documentation. If I take the comma out, it works, but I need it for the thousands grouping.
Anyone encountered this?
In ColdFusion, the # is a reserved character. To escape it, you'll have to double them up to escape them:
<cfset format.dataformat = "##,######0.00">
Silly that they didn't account for this either in the documentation or followed ColdFusion's formatting rules using 9s instead of #s.
Here is my full working standalone test code:
<cfset myQuery = QueryNew('number')>
<cfset newRow = QueryAddRow(MyQuery, 2)>
<cfset temp = QuerySetCell(myQuery, "number", "349348394", 1)>
<cfset temp = QuerySetCell(myQuery, "number", "10000000", 2)>
<cfscript>
//Use an absolute path for the files. --->
theDir=GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath());
theFile=theDir & "getTestInv.xls";
//Create an empty ColdFusion spreadsheet object. --->
theSheet = SpreadsheetNew("invoicesData");
//Populate the object with a query. --->
SpreadsheetAddRows(theSheet,myQuery,1,1);
</cfscript>
<cfset format = StructNew()>
<cfset format.dataformat = "##,######0.00">
<cfset SpreadsheetFormatColumn(theSheet,format,1)>
<cfspreadsheet action="write" filename="#theFile#" name="theSheet" sheetname="theSheet" overwrite=true>
it should be like that
<cfset format = StructNew()>
<cfset format.dataformat = "##,####0.00">
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OK, so I've been banging my head against this one for a while and getting nowhere. I've been attempting to take the contents of a variable and parse the contained string into parts that would then be ingested into 5 separate variables. Seems simple enough right? Well, it has not proven to be simple at all, at least for me.
So I have a variable (PageContent) that contains the trimmed content from a CFHTTP request.
The PageContent variable now contains:
<tdnowrapalign=right>07/18/2020 13:00</td>
<tdalign=right>1002.12</td>
<tdalign=right>2,874,887</td>
<tdalign=right>12,766</td>
<tdalign=right>13,038</td>
It seems like there should be an easy way to write a loop that would loop over the tags in the "PageContent" variable assigning the content of each tag to a different variable. But every way I try to parse the data in the variable I either get an error (Complex object types cannot be converted to simple values.) or I end up with the content that I originally had in the "PageContent" variable repeated within the loop.
For instance, if I had a loop that would run through 5 iterations and could grab the contents of the tags assigning each to a variable then the desired result would be:
DateTime = "07/18/2020 13:00"
Elevation = "1002.12"
Storage = "2,874,887"
Outflow = "12,766"
Inflow = "13,038"
After trying every example I could find here and elsewhere online I'm now on something like my 100th attempt. Now I'm trying to use regular expressions to grab the contents of the tags and assign them to variables but no luck there. What I ended up with was the entire contents of the PageContent variable being stuffed into each one of the variables. The result was not really unexpected since I don't know of a way to differentiate between the 3 identical "tdalign" tags, but still it seems like at least the first variable would have worked since the tag was different "tdnowrapalign".
<cfset i=5/>
<cfloop index = "LoopCount" from = "1" to = #i#>
<cfif i EQ 1>
<cfset dataDateTime = Replace(PageContent, "<[tdnowrapalign][^>]*>(.+?)</[td]>","","ALL")>
<cfelseif i EQ 2>
<cfset elevation = Replace(PageContent, "<[tdalign][^>]*>(.+?)</[td]>","","ALL")>
<cfelseif i EQ 3>
<cfset storage = Replace(PageContent, "<[tdalign][^>]*>(.+?)</[td]>","","ALL")>
<cfelseif i EQ 4>
<cfset outflow = Replace(PageContent, "<[tdalign][^>]*>(.+?)</[td]>","","ALL")>
<cfelseif i EQ 5>
<cfset inflow = Replace(PageContent, "<[tdalign][^>]*>(.+?)</[td]>","","ALL")>
</cfif>
<cfoutput>
<cfif isdefined("dataDateTime")>
dataDateTime = #dataDateTime#<br>
</cfif>
<cfif isdefined("elevation")>
elevation = #elevation#<br>
</cfif>
<cfif isdefined("storage")>
storage = #storage#<br>
</cfif>
<cfif isdefined("outflow")>
outflow = #outflow#<br>
</cfif>
<cfif isdefined("inflow")>
inflow = #inflow#<br>
</cfif>
</cfoutput>
<cfset i = i - 1>
</cfloop>
Does anyone know if there is a way to get to the desired outcome I described where I end up with 5 variables containing the contents of the tags contained within the "PageContent" variable?
One way of doing it would be like this
<cfset PageContent = '<tdnowrapalign=right>07/18/2020 13:00</td>
<tdalign=right>1002.12</td>
<tdalign=right>2,874,887</td>
<tdalign=right>12,766</td>
<tdalign=right>13,038</td>' />
<cfset data = ListToArray(PageContent, '</td>', false, true) />
<cfset DateTime = ListLast(data[1], '>') />
<cfset Elevation = ListLast(data[2], '>') />
<cfset Storage = ListLast(data[3], '>') />
<cfset Outflow = ListLast(data[4], '>') />
<cfset Inflow = ListLast(data[5], '>') />
Demo: https://trycf.com/gist/b4f3b630bd1cbdc505d07a7d79b68ef5/acf?theme=monokai
I have a set of list values in ColdFusion variable, and I need to replace all the list values into desired text.
For Example:
<cfset headerColumnList = "FirstName,LastName,Email,FrequentGuestID,IP Address,Time Stamp Email Marketing">
<cfset a="test1">
<cfset b="test2">
<cfset c="test3">
<cfset d="test4">
<cfset e="test5">
<cfset f="test6">
<cfloop index = "ListElement" list= "#headerColumnList#" delimiters = ",">
<cfoutput>
#replaceList("#ListElement#","FirstName,LastName,Email,FrequentGuestID,IP Address,Time Stamp Email Marketing","#a#,#b#,#c#,#d#,#e#,#f#",",")#
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>
Output:
test1
test2
test3
test4
test5
Time Stamp test3 Marketing
In the above scenario. The value "Time Stamp Email Marketing" is supposed to be replaced with "test6" but I am getting in an alternative way where it is not replacing the phrase as a whole word. Can anyone tell me how do I replace the list phrases, any alternative for this?
Here you can use the ListQualify function to get exact result of an your scenario. So convert it in to qualify values and looping with that then you can replace it with your own list data. No need to change any order of a list values.
<cfset quoted = listQualify(headerColumnList,"''")>
<cfloop index = "ListElement" list= "#quoted#" delimiters = ",">
#replaceList(ListElement,quoted,"#a#,#b#,#c#,#d#,#e#,#f#")#
<br/>
</cfloop>
The code is working as written. You are seeing this because your check for "Email" in the replaceList() function is firing before the check for "Time Stamp Email Marketing". Notice the word "Email" in that string.
I don't know what your actual use case is but you can change the order of your code for this specific example to make it work like you want.
<cfset headerColumnList = "FirstName,LastName,Email,FrequentGuestID,IP Address,Time Stamp Email Marketing">
<cfset a="test1">
<cfset b="test2">
<cfset c="test3">
<cfset d="test4">
<cfset e="test5">
<cfset f="test6">
<cfloop index = "ListElement" list= "#headerColumnList#" delimiters = ",">
<cfoutput>
#replaceList("#ListElement#","FirstName,LastName,FrequentGuestID,IP Address,Time Stamp Email Marketing,Email","#a#,#b#,#d#,#e#,#f#,#c#",",")#
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>
This gives the desired output. Notice how I reordered the conditions within the replaceList() function.
It's been awhile since I've written this type of ColdFusion code, hence the question.
I am returning values from a .NET webservice into ColdFusion. The webservice returns an array of strings. The following code...
<cfoutput>
<cfset xArrayItems=#GetRequestedUserSettings.settingValues.getString()#>
<cfset xLen=ArrayLen(GetRequestedUserSettings.settingValues.getString())>
<cfloop index="x" from=1 to="#xLen#">
#xArrayItems[x]#<br />
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>
results in the following output ...
maxsize=50
isdomainadmin=False
seenwelcome=False
I want to put those name/value pairs into a meaningful structure so that I can reference them farther down in the code. I actually need to pass them in as a cfinvokearguments for the next webservice call.
Could someone please be kind enough to remind me how to do this in CF8? Most of what I am finding refers to newer versions.
I ended up with something quite similar to what #Henry you provided.
<cfset UserSettings = structNew()>
<cfset xArrayItems= GetRequestedUserSettings.settingValues.getString()>
<cfset xLen=ArrayLen(GetRequestedUserSettings.settingValues.getString())>
<cfloop index="x" from=1 to="#xLen#">
<cfset varName = ListGetAt(xArrayItems[x], 1, "=")>
<cfset varValue = ListGetAt(xArrayItems[x], 2, "=")>
<cfset "UserSettings.#varname#" = varValue>
</cfloop>
Not sure if an Array or a Struct is a better solution, but the both work in the end.
Slightly more readable version I can come up with that will work with CF8:
<cfset UserSettings = {}>
<cfset xArrayItems = GetRequestedUserSettings.settingValues.getString()>
<cfloop array="#xArrayItems#" index="item">
<cfset varname = ListFirst(item, "=")>
<cfset varvalue = ListRest(item, "=")>
<cfset UserSettings[varname] = varvalue>
</cfloop>
I have a csv file composed from a header line (field list) and several detalis lines (details for each Customer).
This file contain a lot of unused fileds so I tried to rebuild a clean file in which I put only fields I need.
for that I loop over the header line, I get the index (position) of the field I need and stored it in a variable:
<cfset FirstName_Pos = listfind(header,'FirstName',';')>
<cfset LastName_Pos = listfind(header,'LastName',';')>
The separated header fields is the ';' character.
After that I retreive the positions of all needed fields, I create a new file to put in the desired info of each line
<cffile action="rename" source="#LocalPath#/#FileName#" destination="#LocalPath#/Source_#FileName#">
<cfset NewFile = FileOpen('#LocalPath#/#FileName#','Append')>
<cfset Newheader = 'FirstName,LastName'>
<cfset fileWriteLine(NewFile, Newheader)>
<cfloop file="#LocalPath#\Source_#FileName#" index="line">
<cfset count = count + 1>
<cfif count GTE 2>
<cfset FirstName= listgetat(line,FirstName_Pos,';',1)>
<cfset LastName= listgetat(line,LastName_Pos,';',1)>
<cfset detail = '#FirstName#,#LastName#'>
<cfset fileWriteLine(NewFile, detail)>
</cfif>
The problem is that in the details lines of the original file there are some fields written as follow :
"#08/04/14 23:00;08/05/14 23:00#"
i.e the field contains the ';' character which is my separated fields character I used in the listgetat function
Therefore, I get non desired value in the variable FirstName and LastName.
Considering that the original file contain the following info:
USERID;Post;FirstName;Date1;Mail;Date2;LastName;Telephone
123;Engineer;Alan;"#08/04/14 23:00;08/05/14 23:00#";alan#yahoo.fr;"#10/04/14 11:00;10/05/14 11:00#";Jones;0624262589
I get :
FirstName;LastName
Alan;"#10/04/14 11:00
instead of
FirstName;LastName
Alan;Jones
I get the idea to loop over all details line of the original file and replace the ';' charcater with a space or blank character using regular expression only on fields having the same format "#08/04/14 23:00;08/05/14 23:00#".
(The date change of course from one field to another and from one raw to another)
<cfloop file="#LocalPath#\Source_#FileName#" index="line">
<cfset newline = rereplace(line,'"##[^\w.];[^\w.]##"','"##[^\w.] [^\w.]##"','all')>
<cfset count = count + 1>
<cfif count GTE 2>
<cfset FirstName= listgetat(newline,FirstName_Pos,';',1)>
<cfset LastName= listgetat(newline,LastName_Pos,';',1)>
<cfset detail = '#FirstName#,#LastName#'>
<cfset fileWriteLine(NewFile, detail)>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
It doesn't work because it seems that the regular expression I used is completely wrong. And also maybe because I duplicate the # sign to deal with coldfusion syntax error
Can anyone has an idea about the regular expression I have to used to deal with this situation?
Thanks in advance
this is an example of an original file
USERID;Post;FirstName;Date1;Mail;Date2;LastName;Telephone
123;Engineer;Alan;"#08/04/14 23:00;08/05/14 23:00#";alan#yahoo.fr;"#10/04/14 11:00;10/05/14 11:00#";Jones;0624262589
parse the original file and replace all occurrences of 0;0 (number;number) with 0,0 (number,number). Then your original solution should work fine.
regex = "/d;/d" to track them down I believe.
I'm looking to learn how to create a REGEX in Coldfusion that will scan through a large item of html text and create a list of items.
The items I want are contained between the following
<span class="findme">The Goods</span>
Thanks for any tips to get this going.
You don't say what version of CF. Since v8 you can use REMatch to get an array
results = REMatch('(?i)<span[^>]+class="findme"[^>]*>(.+?)</span>', text)
Use ArrayToList to turn that into a list.
For older version use REFindNoCase and use Mid() to extract substrings.
EDIT: To answer your follow-up comment the process of using REFind to return all matches is quite involved because the function only returns the FIRST match. This means you actually have to call REFind many times passing a new startpos each time. Ben Forta has written a UDF which does exactly this and will save you some time.
<!---
Returns all the matches of a regular expression within a string.
NOTE: Updated to allow subexpression selection (rather than whole match)
#param regex Regular expression. (Required)
#param text String to search. (Required)
#param subexnum Sub-expression to extract (Optional)
#return Returns a structure.
#author Ben Forta (ben#forta.com)
#version 1, July 15, 2005
--->
<cffunction name="reFindAll" output="true" returnType="struct">
<cfargument name="regex" type="string" required="yes">
<cfargument name="text" type="string" required="yes">
<cfargument name="subexnum" type="numeric" default="1">
<!--- Define local variables --->
<cfset var results=structNew()>
<cfset var pos=1>
<cfset var subex="">
<cfset var done=false>
<!--- Initialize results structure --->
<cfset results.len=arraynew(1)>
<cfset results.pos=arraynew(1)>
<!--- Loop through text --->
<cfloop condition="not done">
<!--- Perform search --->
<cfset subex=reFind(arguments.regex, arguments.text, pos, true)>
<!--- Anything matched? --->
<cfif subex.len[1] is 0>
<!--- Nothing found, outta here --->
<cfset done=true>
<cfelse>
<!--- Got one, add to arrays --->
<cfset arrayappend(results.len, subex.len[arguments.subexnum])>
<cfset arrayappend(results.pos, subex.pos[arguments.subexnum])>
<!--- Reposition start point --->
<cfset pos=subex.pos[1]+subex.len[1]>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<!--- If no matches, add 0 to both arrays --->
<cfif arraylen(results.len) is 0>
<cfset arrayappend(results.len, 0)>
<cfset arrayappend(results.pos, 0)>
</cfif>
<!--- and return results --->
<cfreturn results>
</cffunction>
This gives you the start (pos) and length of each match so to get each substring use another loop
<cfset text = '<span class="findme">The Goods</span><span class="findme">More Goods</span>' />
<cfset pattern = '(?i)<span[^>]+class="findme"[^>]*>(.+?)</span>' />
<cfset results = reFindAll(pattern, text, 2) />
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#ArrayLen(results.pos)#">
<cfoutput>match #i#: #Mid(text, results.pos[i], results.len[i])#<br></cfoutput>
</cfloop>
EDIT: Updated reFindAll with subexnum argument. Setting this to 2 will capture the first subexpression. The default value 1 captures the entire match.
Try looking into the possibility of making your HTML work with a regular DOM Parser and querying it via XPath instead of hammering this trough an regex-based abomination.
to make HTML input usable, pass it through jTidy (see http://jtidy.riaforge.org/)
Once you have well-formed XML/XHTML, build an XML document from it
<cfset dom = XmlParse(scrubbedHtml, true)>
query the XML document using XPath
<cfset result = XmlSearch(dom, "//span[#class='findme']")>
Done.
EDIT: Coldfusion's XmlSearch() doesn't have great XML namespace support. If you end up producing XHTML instead of the more recommendable XML, use the following XPath (note the colon) "//:span[#class='findme']" or "//*:span[#class='findme']". See here and here for more info.
See the jTidy API documentation for a complete overview what jTidy can do.