1 makes the select box and fills all the values in in lower case
The second programmer is doing whatever based on the value selected in the select box and writes this line:
<cfif FORM.MySelectBox eq "BIFF">
That condition will never be true because case was not considered...the line should read
<cfif UCase(FORM.MySelectBox) eq "BIFF">
This is assuming that "biff" only has one meaning no matter what case it's in.
Does that make sense??
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan F. Hogan
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: populating dropdowns
Why would checking case insensative get you into trouble?
As you say it would be bad design to make HIGH and high mean differant
things, so why then would session.username='high' mean anything
differant than UCASE(session.username) is 'HIGH'?
Bryan Stevenson wrote:
> The value could be high,High,HIGH,HiGH etc. SO checking to see if
> it's 'high' can get you into trouble (unless of course HIGH and high
> have different meanings...then by all means it should be as it was
> written (but IMHO that would be bad design to have HIGH and high mean
> different things).
>
> It's case sensitive because the value of username could be stored in the
> DB as all upper/lower/mixed case....to be case insensitive you have to
> check values of the same case...all upper...all lower...whatever floats
> yer boat.
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