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Old November 6th, 2003, 05:05 PM
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Exclamation # and url String

I am building a url for a cfm page with a tool that gets info from a DB. The link appear in regular HTML. It populates a form that is on a cfm page. The data in the db address field sometimes contains # symbols e.g. 1000 Main Street #101. This make Cold Fusion Freak-Out (makes me freak-out as well) by passing this in as a url string. How can this be fixed? Need help today. Thanks.

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<cfif NOT IsDefined("url.a1")> <cfset #url.a1# = ""> </cfif>

<input type="text" name="address" size="40" <cfif#a1# NEQ "">value=<cfoutput>#a1#</cfoutput></cfif>>

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Old November 7th, 2003, 12:21 PM
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Try using the urlEncodedFormat() function when you output your query data into the URL string.

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Old November 25th, 2003, 07:41 AM
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This shouldnt matter

If ColdFusion is dealing with data that is alread in a variable, like data coming form a database, the ColdFusion will escape the chars automatically

so if you had myDomain.com/index.cfm?someVal=#hiThere, ColdFusion wont spit it cause its not having to deal with it directly. The only time ColdFusion will die is if you try something like this

Code:
<cfset myVar = "Hello there. I am #1">
<cfoutput>#myVar#</cfoutput>


If your doing stuff like that you have to escape the pounds like so

Code:
<cfset myVar = "Hello there. I am ##1">
<cfoutput>#myVar#</cfoutput>


Steve

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