Question

I’m running Coldfusion8 and am struggling to access an array I have set.

My array is set like this:

Application.strConfig.respH = arrayNew(2);
Application.strConfig.respH[1][1] = "s";
Application.strConfig.respH[1][2] = 127;
Application.strConfig.respH[2][1] = "m";
Application.strConfig.respH[2][2] = 230;
...

resulting in this:

RESPH:  
[array]
1) [array]
    1) s 
    2) 127  
2) [array]
    1) m 
    2) 230  

I need to get the default numbers based on a size I’m getting on a page. So for example, when I end up with m I need to get respH values for m. Right now I’m trying this:

 <cfscript>
 LOCAL.runner = "s,m,l,xl"; 
 LOCAL.lt = ListGetAt(LOCAL.runner, LOCAL.i, ",");
 LOCAL.height = Application.strConfig.respH[ LOCAL.lt ];
 </cfscript>

Doing so, Coldfusion complains The value m cannot be converted to a number.

Question:
How do I access the elements in my strConfig object?

Thanks for helping out!

Answer 1

(From comments …)

If you need to look up data by a specific key, do not use arrays. Use a structure. With
arrays you must loop to find the matching key. (CF9+ supports ArrayFind)