Merging arrays in ColdFusion
Posted by
Luis Majano
Nov 24, 2009 00:00:00 UTC
I need to merge several arrays today in CF but I wanted to treat the resulting merged array as a set, where it only had items that are not duplicated. Java to the rescue, our good old Set interface and using a Tree set class.
All we need to do is use its awesome methods:
a1 = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
a2 = [2,6,8,4,99,0];
set = createObject("java","java.util.TreeSet").init(a1);
set.addAll(a2);
That's it. This merges the array collections and creates a sorted set without any duplicates. Quick and easy!
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James White
Very nice. It's good to see Java have some use in ColdFusion. I like Java but feel like I would be force fitting Java into something CF can do, for most of the stuff I have considered Java for.
marc esher
Great tip, Luis. Thanks!
Sami Hoda
You should add a UDF to CFLIB called ArrayMergeUnique or something like that. Definitely useful.
John Allen
sharp!