User Guide

726 Chapter 3: ColdFusion Functions
Example
<h3>ToString Example</h3>
<!---- Initialize data. ------>
<cfset charData = "">
<!----- Create string of ASCII characters (32-255) and concatenate them. ---->
<cfloop index = "data" from = "32" to = "255">
<cfset ch = chr(data)>
<cfset charData = charData & ch>
</cfloop>
<p>The following string is the concatenation of characters (32 to 255)
from the ASCII table.<br>
<cfoutput>#charData#</cfoutput></p>
<!------ Create a Base64 representation of this string. ---->
<cfset data64 = toBase64(#charData#)>
<p>
The following string is the Base64 representation of the string.<br>
<cfoutput>#data64#</cfoutput></p>
<!---- Create a binary representation of Base64 data. --->
<cfset dataBinary = toBinary(data64)>
<!---- Create the string representation of the binary data. ----->
<cfset dataString = ToString(dataBinary)>
<p>The following is the string representation of the binary data.<br>
<cfoutput>#dataString#</cfoutput></p>