Yep, try/catch was how I was getting the error message I showed, it just was out in the main logic and not in the subroutine.
Thanks for finding the issue, that's exactly what I meant by obvious! -- Howard Fore, howard.f...@hofo.com “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” - Margaret Mead On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Troy Jones <t...@dynapp.com> wrote: > Howard,**** > > ** ** > > One thing I might suggest is to try/catch the logic and dump the cfcatch > scope into an email. This will probably yield you a more robust error > report than what you see here.**** > > ** ** > > I took your function and modified it just a bit to see if I could find > something out. It looks like that, when you set the date as “31oct2012”, > the reason its yielding an error is because of your list being out of > chronological order. Oct and Nov are switched. I fixed them up; the > function returns the expected data. **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] *On Behalf Of *Howard > Fore > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 26, 2012 9:25 PM > *To:* ACFUG Discussion > *Subject:* [ACFUG Discuss] Re: Odd CreateDate error**** > > ** ** > > Actually that date string works ok. But "31Oct2011" does not. "30Oct2011" > is ok, Halloween isn't. Grr.**** > > > -- > Howard Fore, howard.f...@hofo.com**** > > “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely > different things.” - Margaret Mead**** > > > > **** > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Howard Fore <howard.f...@hofo.com> wrote: > **** > > I'm sure there's some blindingly obvious thing I'm doing wrong here, but I > can't see it. Any ideas would be extremely helpful.**** > > ** ** > > <cffunction name="dateConverter">**** > > <cfargument name="strDate" required="yes">**** > > <cfargument name="strFormat" required = "yes">**** > > <cfset var rtnDate = createDate(1900,1,1)>**** > > ** ** > > <cfif arguments.strFormat is "ddmmmyyyy">**** > > <!--- example: 31jan2012 --->**** > > <cfset var dateParts = > RefindNoCase('([0-9]{1,2})([a-z]{3,3})([0-9]{4,4})',arguments.strDate,1,true)> > **** > > <cfif dateparts.pos[2] neq 0>**** > > <cfset var theDate = {}>**** > > ** ** > > <cfset theDate.days = > mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[2],dateParts.len[2])>**** > > ** ** > > <cfset theDate.month = > mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[3],dateParts.len[3])>**** > > <cfset var theMonthsList = > 'jan,feb,mar,apr,may,jun,jul,aug,sep,nov,oct,dec'>**** > > <cfset theDate.monthNumber = ListFind(theMonthsList,theDate.month)>**** > > ** ** > > <cfset theDate.year = > mid(arguments.strDate,dateParts.pos[4],dateParts.len[4])>**** > > ** ** > > <cfset rtnDate = createDate(theDate.year, theDate.monthNumber, > theDate.days)>**** > > </cfif>**** > > ** ** > > </cfif>**** > > <cfreturn rtnDate>**** > > </cffunction>**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > <cfset theDate = "12oct2012">**** > > <cfoutput>#dateConverter(theDate,'ddmmmyyyy')#</cfoutput>**** > > ** ** > > gives me (in CF 9.0.1) an extremely unhelpful error (line 37 in the stack > trace below is the cfset rtnDate line towards the end of the above function: > **** > > ** ** > > *struct* > > Message**** > > MONTH**** > > StackTrace**** > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: MONTH at > java.util.GregorianCalendar.computeTime(GregorianCalendar.java:2482) at > java.util.Calendar.updateTime(Calendar.java:2469) at > java.util.Calendar.getTimeInMillis(Calendar.java:1088) at > java.util.Calendar.getTime(Calendar.java:1061) at > coldfusion.util.DateUtils.createDate(DateUtils.java:959) at > coldfusion.runtime.CFPage.CreateDate(CFPage.java:1009) at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441$funcDATECONVERTER.runFunction(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:37) > at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:472) at > coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod$ArgumentCollectionFilter.invoke(UDFMethod.java:368) > at > coldfusion.filter.FunctionAccessFilter.invoke(FunctionAccessFilter.java:55) > at coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.runFilterChain(UDFMethod.java:321) at > coldfusion.runtime.UDFMethod.invoke(UDFMethod.java:220) at > coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invokeUDF(CfJspPage.java:2582) at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor2(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1251) > at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor11(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1242) > at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor12(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1156) > at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor13(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1154) > at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor14(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1146) > at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor24(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:1137) > at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441._factor32(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:13) > at > cfindex2ecfm2067856441.runPage(D:\frba\pages\research\inflationproject\dashboard\index.cfm:12) > at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:231) at > coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:416) at > coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65) at > coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:360) at > coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48) > at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at > coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:94) at > coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at > coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:79) at > coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28) > at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at > coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at > coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at > coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at > coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62) at > coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200) at > coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at > jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at > coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42) > at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46) > at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at > jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at > jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at > jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at > jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286) > at > jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543) > at > jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203) > at > jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428) > at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)**** > > > -- > Howard Fore, howard.f...@hofo.com**** > > “What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely > different things.” - Margaret Mead**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > ------------------------------ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2437/5095 - Release Date: 06/26/12* > *** >
