Introduction to Data Structures in ColdFusion

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Uncomplicated, easy to understand. Well-written.

Thanks for the info, nice to have it laid out that simply. But there are several bugs in your "real life" code samples:
- <cfset months = ArrayNew()> should be <cfset months = ArrayNew(1)>
- smart quotes won't work they have to be replaced with standard ""
- the variable selectmonth from the first part is named selectedmonth in the second part

[davidjmedlock]

Good eye for those details there. I'm not sure what happened with those smart quotes, excellent catch on the misnamed variables (I though I copied and pasted that code from a working version...) and the ArrayNew(1). I'll get with the editor...

Thanks again

What are all the "//" for? I have never seen this.

What are they? Protecting the quotes isn't required there, is it?

[creole]

It's most likely that those slashes were left in from either a form submission (from author to editor) or possibly when the content was input into the database using a PHP form.

<option value="#i#" selected>#months[i]#</option>

should be:

<option value="#i#" selected><cfoutput>#months[i]#</cfoutput></option>

Thank you guys for your resourceful sites

[datapacks.com]

You can also use
<cfif selectmonth EQ #months[i]#>

so that your list menu displays the current month by default.

Thanks for Anonymous post.
It's a very useful article but please double check before posting code.