Utility Function: StructExtract()
- December 4, 2008 5:30 AM
- Utility Function
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Working with ArgumentCollections reminded me that I sometimes wish that I had an easy way to pull out just a few values from a structure into a new structure. So I wrote one:
<cffunction name="StructExtract" output="false" returntype="struct">
<cfargument name="struct" type="struct" required="true"/>
<cfargument name="keyList" type="string" required="true"/>
<cfset var returnStruct = StructNew() />
<cfloop list="#UCase(arguments.keyList)#" index="key">
<cfset returnStruct[key] = arguments.struct[key] />
</cfloop>
<cfreturn returnStruct />
</cffunction>
Example
<cfset struct1 = {
Naomi = "Sweet",
Kit = "Tough",
Christina = "Cocky"
} />
<cfdump var="#struct1#" labe="struct1"/>
<cfset struct2 = StructExtract(struct1, "naomi,kit") />
<cfdump var="#struct2#" labe="struct2"/>
