....and about whether Cost is truly a Boolean... -----Original Message----- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Just a tidbit for those who might not have use iif before
Uh oh. You're probably about to get hammered with responses related to the performance cost... On 3/22/07, Peterson, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have never really used iif before, I was aware it existed but didn't > really see a good place for it. Until today. =) > > Check this out: > > dollarformat(iif(Cost, cost, 0)) > > That says, evaluate cost as a Boolean, if its true (anything but 0 or > null) then return cost, otherwise return 0 (so the dollarFormat does > not > break) This is great instead of a <cfif> around the whole thing. > > Kinda cool =) > > Chris > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273438 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
