http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T03:04:41 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/elemen15.htm#38595 The organization is not that clear, but this page merely appears to be an <br />overview. See http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/<br />variabl5.htm and following pages for a detailed explanation of data types. marnen 0 0 2005-08-11T16:40:50 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/elemen15.htm#16789 This "discussion" of data types is almost useless. It should actually describe the data types. Instead, it gives one or two examples, or nothin at all!. Really Bad!<br /><br />Here are some things that I have learned by trial and error that are the kinds of things that should be in this section the ONLY section that purports to talk about data types:<br /><br />All simple data types are basically strings. A string in ColdFusion is written as a sequence of alphanumeric characters enclosed in single or double quotes. Strings that look like integers or real numbers can usually and should usually be written without the quotes, especially when doing mathmatical operatons on them. Valid boolean values for true are "yes", "true", true, "1", 1 . Valid boolean values for false are "no", "false", false, "0", 0 . The character sequences yes, no, false, and true can be any mixture of upper- and lower-case letters. A date-time value (also referred to in the documentation as a date-time "object") is actually just a string in a special format. 2:30 PM on June 14, 2004 is represented as:<br /><br />{ts '2004-06-14 14:02:30'}<br /><br />where "ts" stands for "timestamp", etc. A date value is "{d '2004-06-14'}" and a time value is {t '14:02:30'}<br /><br />This page also need a description of an array and a structure, including what types of data can be stored in each. I won't write it all for you, but you get the idea, I hope. <br /><br />repre a440guy 0 0 2004-06-14T11:07:22