Question

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;

}

Answer 1

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)