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Using pound signs in tag bodies

You can put variables or functions freely inside the bodies of the following tags by enclosing each variable or expression with pound signs:

• cfoutput
• cfquery
• cfmail

For example:

<cfoutput>
   Value is #Form.MyTextField#
</cfoutput>

<cfoutput>
   The name is #FirstName# #LastName#.
</cfoutput>

<cfoutput>
   The value of Cos(0) is #Cos(0)#
</cfoutput>

If you omit the pound signs, the text, rather than the value, appears in the output generated by the cfoutput statement.

Two expressions inside pound signs can be adjacent to one another, as in the following example:

<cfoutput>
   "Mo" and "nk" is #Left("Moon", 2)##Mid("Monkey", 3, 2)#
</cfoutput>

This code displays the following text:

"Mo" and "nk" is Monk

ColdFusion does not interpret the double pound sign as an escaped # character.

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