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• CFDirectory Filtering Uses Pipe Character For Multiple Filters (Thanks Steve Withington)

  Posted on May 7, 2008 at 10:32 AM

  No problem, thanks for the mention.... read more »

• CFDirectory Filtering Uses Single Character Wild Card

  Posted on May 7, 2008 at 9:46 AM

  Todd is correct. The pipe symbol is just an OR statement (not sure if it's regex or not). However, I just tried it once a long time ago when commas weren't doing the trick.... read more »

• CFDirectory Filtering Uses Single Character Wild Card

  Posted on May 7, 2008 at 9:23 AM

  @Dan, You can do just that: <cfdirectory action="list" directory="#ExpandPath( './' )#" name="qFile" sort="name ASC" filter="*.pdf|*.zip|*.doc|*.docx|*.ppt|*.pptx|*.pot|*.dot|*.xls|*.xlsx|*.swf|*.rtf" />... read more »

• New ColdFusion CFMailParam "Remove" Attribute Makes Deleting Attachments Simple

  Posted on May 1, 2008 at 2:29 PM

  @Ben, Just out of curiosity, do you purposely avoid using <cfform> for any particular reason(s)? I'm not necessarily speaking of format="flash" either. I've just noticed several CF developers don't/aren't use/using it.... read more »

• Thoughts On Chained And Dependent Algorithm Steps

  Posted on Apr 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM

  Actually, after re-reading your post, I caught your mention of NOT liking the IF statements. Sorry. It's just as I was going through your code, I forgot about your comment, and started wondering why you didn't just use an IF statement. Funny. For what it's worth, I don't mind the IF stat... read more »

• Thoughts On Chained And Dependent Algorithm Steps

  Posted on Apr 10, 2008 at 9:42 AM

  I think I'm following you here, and you've shown similar usage of this logic in other examples. For example, in your post on July 17, 2007 regarding upload and email file using ColdFusion, you perform similar usage simply by using <cfif NOT ArrayLen( arrErrors )> to wrap around each "Step"... read more »

• Strange URL Hash Problem With CFLocation In IE6

  Posted on Mar 23, 2008 at 6:33 PM

  Not sure if this will help your development environment or not, but I'm a Vista user and have been running MS Virtual PC 2007 with an XP sp2 IE6 virtual pc image (which is set to expire on June 3rd) both of which are free. They even have an IE8 image available too. Virtual PC 2007: read more »