Cfscript help

Hey Why does the following cfscript take absolutely AGES to load? <cfscript> while (len(#ref# LT 5)) { insert('0','#ref#',0); } </cfscript> Ryan ** posted to the cf-linux list by accident -- oops!

Could be the brackets... Try... <cfscript> while (len(#ref#) LT 5) {   insert('0','#ref#',0); } </cfscript> Hey Why does the following cfscript take absolutely AGES to load? <cfscript> while (len(#ref# LT 5)) { insert('0','#ref#',0); } </cfscript> Ryan ** posted to the cf-linux list by accident -- oops!

Brackets were wrong - thanks, but its still times out! Any other thoughts? ryan On 2/1/03 12:12, "Mike Townend" <mike@cfnews.co.uk> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Have you considered that ref does not actually get bigger? should it not be ref = insert('0','#ref#',0); ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Brilliant this worked... thanks, didn¹t realise you needed to assign the insert, I thought it inserted it without! Oh well! thanks again! Ryan On 2/1/03 12:25, "Adam Reynolds" <adam@craze.co.uk> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

> > ref = insert('0',ref,0); is better. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

You could try something like... <CFSCRIPT>   if (Len(Ref) LT 5)   {     Ref = NumberFormat(Ref, "9999999999900000.00");   } <CFSCRIPT> Or something like that ? HTH Mikey Brackets were wrong - thanks, but its still times out! Any other thoughts? ryan On 2/1/03 12:12, "Mike Townend" <mike@cfnews.co.uk> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

insert() returns a string, but you're not setting ref as the new string. Therefore you get an infinite loop BTW, you should ditch the use of ##s Taz > Brackets were wrong - thanks, but its still times out! > Any other thoughts? > ryan