What method are you using to cast your CF array over to a JS array? William
-- William E. Seiter Have you ever read a book that changed your life? Go to: www.winninginthemargins.com Enter passkey: goldengrove Web Developer / ColdFusion Programmer http://William.Seiter.com -----Original Message----- From: Richard White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 10:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: empty array elements hi, i have battling with this problem for months and never thought to ask the experts for their opinion :) i have some instances in my code where i query a database and store the values in cf array variables for some processing. however i have noticed that if you try to store an empty value into an array element, it doesn't create that array element at all. then when i translate those arrays over to javascript arrays it causes problems. for example i try to create an array but 1 element is empty arrayName[1] = "one" arrayName[2] = "" // empty string arrayName[3] = "three" arrayName[4] = "four" when this is converted over to JS. Then in js code i am assuming that there are 4 elements but of course there isnt so it produces an error. Plus they are not in the correct position in the array: arrayName[1] = "one" arrayName[2] = "three" arrayName[3] = "four" i have so far got around it by checking whether it is an empty string when i get it out of the database and if it is i set the value to a dash '-'. this gives me the following: arrayName[1] = "one" arrayName[2] = "-" arrayName[3] = "three" arrayName[4] = "four" then in js i can run some code that checks whether the value is a dash '-' and if it is then it needs to treat it as an empty string. surely there is a better way to do it than this. i would appreciate your opinions and feedback. thanks very much richard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299284 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
