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valueweaver
valueweaver

Reputation: 483

How to mask yes/no when using ColdFusion YesNoFormat

Is there a way to mask the output of YesNoFormat() so that instead of 'yes' and 'no' it displays 'active' and 'inactive'.

   <cfset currstatus = YesNoFormat(usrStatus)> //Returns Yes. I want this to return active

Before displaying i can do a if/else check: if "Yes" display "active" else display "inactive". but I want to avoid this as I have to do this in lot of places so just want to reach out to the community if their is any masking capability/technique available for this function. If not is there any alternative. Comment if you need more details

Upvotes: 2

Views: 236

Answers (4)

Alex Baban
Alex Baban

Reputation: 11702

You can't do YesNoFormat(value, [maskvalue1, maskvalue2])

but you can do YesNoFormat(value) ? "maskvalue1" : "maskvalue2"

and since value must be a number or boolean you end up with

((value) ? "maskvalue1" : "maskvalue2") in your case

<cfset currStatus = ((usrStatus) ? "active" : "inactive") />

Upvotes: 3

Sebastian Zartner
Sebastian Zartner

Reputation: 20105

YesNoFormat() unfortuantely doesn't allow to output different strings. If you need that functionality in a lot of places, you should therefore create your own function like this:

<cffunction name="boolToString" returntype="string">
  <cfargument name="boolVar" type="boolean" required="yes">
  <cfreturn boolVar ? "active" : "inactive">
</cffunction>

Upvotes: 3

Scott Jibben
Scott Jibben

Reputation: 2287

Single line version of the if/else statement:

<cfset currstatus = usrStatus ? "active" : "inactive">

Upvotes: 8

Rob
Rob

Reputation: 63

the only way i can see is to use a if statement. 

<cfif usrStatus>
   <cfset currstatus = "active">
<cfelse>
  <cfset currstatus = "inactive">
</cfif>

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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