[thelist] CF smoke and mirrors

[Chris Evans]

You can only Evaluate functions, not tags.  I'm not sure exactly what you
are trying to do, but I'm sure there's a simpler way to do it.  Maybe if you
can explain the problem you are trying to solve a little better?

Chris Evans
chris at fuseware.com
http://www.fuseware.com



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Evoltarians,

I am somewhat confounded with the following code:

<cfset p1 = "<cfparam name=""records.type"" default="""">">
<cfscript>
	Evaluate(p1);
</cfscript>

The purpose is to write a cfparam tag as a string and evaluate it to get the
actual parameter, which is then used elsewhere.

The problem is this error:
<err>
  An error occurred while evaluating the expression:

  				Evaluate(p1);

  Error near line 69, column 5.
  --------------------------------------------------
  An error has occurred while processing the expression:

     <cfparam name="records.type" default="">

  Invalid token found on line 1 at position 1. ColdFusion
  was looking at the following text:

	<c

  Invalid expression element. The usual cause of this
  error is a misspelling in the expression text.
</err>

It _seems_ to be evaluating it ok, but something jumps off the cycle
thereupon, ending its sorry life.

Is there a soul to illumine this wayward, ah, how was it called, token?

<rory disposition="going for a walk to look for the obviously fearless deer
that eat the berries at the parking lot of this large, excessively
clangorous, somewhat poisonous and foul smelling plant I like to work at"
alt="8)"/>

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