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CFSET

Use the CFSET tag to define a ColdFusion variable. If the variable already exists, CFSET resets it to the specified value.

Syntax

<CFSET variable_name=expression>

Arrays

The following example assigns a new array to the variable "months".

<CFSET months=ArrayNew(1)>

This example creates a variable "Array_Length" that resolves to the length of the array "Scores".

<CFSET Array_Length=ArrayLen(Scores)>

This example assigns to index position two in the array "months" the value "February".

<CFSET months[2]="February">

Dynamic variable names

In this example, the variable name is itself a variable.

<CFSET myvariable="current_value">
<CFSET "#myvariable#"=5>

COM objects

In this example, a COM object is created. A CFSET defines a value ...