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November 20, 2002

Regular Expressions and Escape Sequences

If you need to refer to specific characters in Regular Expressions (even special ones like tab and new line) you may escape them using their hexadecimal or octal values. Hexadecimal values are specified in the format x00, and octal values are specified in the format 00. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

November 19, 2002

Comments in XSL Files

XSL files may contain comments, but don’t use the ColdFusion comment format of . Instead, use the HTML format, or use ... . (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

November 17, 2002

Performing Calculations on XML Data

XPath supports the use of basic mathematical operations allowing for data to be matched using mathematical expressions. Supported expressions include sum() and round(). (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

November 14, 2002

Using

is used, among other things, to set the page encoding to be used. must be included in each file that is to be processed, and cannot just be placed in Application.cfm. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

November 13, 2002

Use UTF-8 If Possible

The default character encoding in ColdFusion MX is UTF-8, and this is the ideal encoding to use if you are creating multi-lingual and internationalized applications. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

November 12, 2002

UNICODE and SQL Server

Using SQL Server to store UNICODE data? If you are using the N datatypes (ntext or nvarchar, for example) be sure to prefix all constants with N (as in N'#var#') or the data could become corrupt. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

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