Looked like it could be a ColdFusion date value to me. So I did a dateFormat() on that and came up with "01/01/2008":
<cfset nValue = "1,1" * 1> <cfoutput>#dateFormat(nValue,"mm/dd/yyyy")#<br><br></cfoutput> It's assuming "1,1" is the current month and year. I did the same for "5,23" * 1 and got 05/23/2008. What's really fun is if you do "1,1" * 2...... Go ahead... see what you get..... 10/15/2116 Now go figure THAT one out! Dave Phillips -----Original Message----- From: Bert Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: ('1,1') * 1 = 39448 I tracked down a defect to a piece of code which basically did the following: total = form.quantity * form.itemamount In some cases, form.quantity is commong through as *1,1* which is presumably due to an HTML issue with duplicate form fields with the same name. But rather than getting a CF error cos 1,1 isn't a number, it evaluates to 39448! i.e. <cfoutput>'1,1' * 1 = #'1,1' * 1#</cfoutput> produces: '1,1' * 1 = 39448 I'm not worried about the original problem with the form.quantity coming though as *1,1* rather than the expected *1* since I can fix that, but i'm curious as to any reason for this odd result. It looks like (x,y) * 1 is the same as (y,x) * 1 In other words <cfoutput>#'5,23' * 1# = #'23,5' * 1# = 39591</cfoutput> As i say, i'm not worried about fixing the defect, but i'm just curious if there is an underlying explanation for the apparently wierd behaviour. Or is it just a bug in the way CF does the conversion? Cheers Bert p.s. FWIW here's a snippet which will create a 101 square grid of all the combinations: <table border="1"> <cfloop from="0" to="100" index="i"> <tr> <cfloop from="0" to="100" index="j"> <td nowrap="true">#wtf(i,j)#</td> </cfloop> </tr> </cfloop> </table> <cfscript> function wtf(a,b) { var x = '#a#,#b#'; try { return '#x#*1 = ' & x*1; } catch(Any E) { return '#x#*1 pukes'; } } </cfscript> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309490 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
