I should think so; problems occur with QoQ when it can't figure out the type of data in a column accurately. With the cfdirectory result query, there will be no problems correctly identifying the 'name' column as a string type.
Dominic On 27/03/2008, Jim McAtee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a directory containing dated log files that I need to parse. These > have filenames like: > > reYYYYMMDD.log > > So I do a <cfdirectory> to pull a list of files: > > <cfdirectory > action="list" > directory="#mylogdir#" > filter="re????????.log" > name="dir"> > > But I want exclude today's log from being processed. This isn't possible > using cfdirectory's filter, so I figured: > > <cfset today = dateFormat(now(), "yyyymmdd"> > > <cfquery type="dbtype" name="dir"> > SELECT * FROM dir > WHERE name <> 're#today#.log' > </cfquery> > > Seems to work. Should this type of QoQ, using the same query name to > effectively delete rows, be safe in most circumstances? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:302149 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4