Can you pass a file into a UDF? Yes. Basically, anything you can do with a UDF you can
do with a CFC and that includes passing huge chunks of data into them.
You might want to check out chapter 8 in the developing CF applications 'book' that
shipped with the server.
> oi people!!
>
> currently I've got a few scripts that generate stats from an ftp
> server. I've got a couple custom tags that loop some files and
> generate queries based on the contents.
>
> My question.... after listening to Tim Buntel talk the other nite bout
> cfc's would it be to my advantage to convert the tags into a cfc or
> leave them as a custom tag.... ? The custom tag takes a file passed
> into it....is this possible with cfc's?
>
> code sample below:
>
> <cfif Not fileexists("#Request.StatDir##attributes.datFile#")>
> <cfexit>
> </cfif>
> <cffile action="READ" file="#Request.StatDir##attributes.datFile#"
>variable="readFile">
> <cfset ufile = querynew("iUser,iGroup,ibytes,itag")>
> <cfloop index="i" list="#readFile#" delimiters="#CHR(13)##CHR(10)#">
> <cfscript>
> i = replacenocase(i,"::",":0:","All");
> i = listToArray(i,":");
> queryaddRow(ufile);
> querySetCell(ufile,"iUser",i[1]);
> querySetCell(ufile,"iGroup",i[2]);
> querySetCell(ufile,"ibytes",i[3]);
> if(i[5] neq 0){
> querySetCell(ufile,"iTag",i[5]);
> }else{
> querySetCell(ufile,"iTag"," ");
> }
> </cfscript>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Critter, MMCP
> Certified ColdFusion Developer
>
> Crit[s2k] - <CF_ChannelOp Network="EFNet" Channel="ColdFusion">
>
>
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