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Jason
Jason

Reputation: 1977

formatting all values in a structure

I need to convert all values in a structure (arguments passed into a function) to uppercase.

I wrote the following method, but rather than replace the argument with the formatted one, it is creating a new key to the arguments struct (e.g. for first loop, it creates a key of '1' with the value of arguments[1], next loop creates a new key of '2' with the value of arguments[2] and so on.

Can anyone suggest how I can change the value of each key in the struct?

The code kind of shows what I am trying to do, but let me know if you need more info.

public function formatValues(){

        numArgs = structCount(arguments);
        for (i=1; i<=numArgs ; i=i+1){
            arguments[i] = Ucase(arguments[i]);
        }

        return arguments;

}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 92

Answers (2)

Scott Stroz
Scott Stroz

Reputation: 7519

Try this:

public function formatValues(){
    for (var i in arguments){
        if( isSimpleValue( arguments[i] ) ){
            arguments[i] = ucase( arguments[i] );
        }
    }
    return arguments;
}
writeDump(formatValues(name="moo",city="baa"));
writeDump(formatValues("moo","baa"));

This will work with named arguments and non-named arguments. It also will only modify simple values (strings, numbers, etc) and not complex variables (arrays, structures, objects)

Upvotes: 5

Stefano D
Stefano D

Reputation: 958

Is it because you forgot the parameter? 

public function formatValues(arguments){

            var numArgs = structCount(arguments);
            for (var i=1; i<=numArgs ; i=i+1)
            {
                arguments[i] = Ucase(arguments[i]);
            }

            return arguments;

    }

Upvotes: 0

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