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Curt Gratz

July 21, 2010

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Have you ever wanted a quick and easy way to combine arrays in ColdFusion.  I have done this a number of ways in the best, but came across this gem and thought I would share.

All ColdFusion arrays are of the Java vector type, we can use the underlying java.util.Vector class methods, specifically the addAll() method.

Keep in mind that this is not a "documented" use of arrays in ColdFusion, so at any version it may stop working.

Merging two arrays in ColdFusion with the java.util.vector.addAll()

ar1 = ["a","b","c"]; ar2 = ["d","e","f"]; ar1.addAll(ar2); writeDump(ar1);

 

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Dec 10, 2010 10:43:30 UTC

by Adam lewis

Thanks for the coding nugget. That pretty slick.

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