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Parameters
Parameter Description
value Value to convert to a string; can be a simple value such as an integer, a binary
object, or an XML document object.
encoding The character encoding (character set) of the string. Optional for binary data,
Generates an error if used for a simple value or XML document object.
The following list includes commonly used values:
• utf-8
• iso-8859-1
• windows-1252
• us-ascii
• shift_jis
• iso-2022-jp
• euc-jp
• euc-kr
• big5
• euc-cn
• utf-16
For more information on character encoding, see:
www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html.
The default value is the encoding of the page on which the function is called. See
cfcontent
Usage
This function can convert simple values and binary values that do not contain Byte zero. If this
function cannot convert a value, it throws an exception. This function can also convert an XML
document object to a string XML representation.
Macromedia recommends that you use the
string.
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. --->
.
CharsetEncode
function to convert binary data to a
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