Colored Code with Coldfusion

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Just found this little thingy which according to me is quite impressive.

<cfset obj = createObject("java","coldfusion.util.FormatSource")>
<cfoutput>
#obj.formatFile(Expandpath('cfdirectory.cfm'))#
</cfoutput>

Now what that does is takes a file from your local folder and applies colored coding to it. Not the best colored code but a lot better than the heavy Regular expression.

Try it out !

| Posted by Anuj Gakhar in ColdFusion

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6 Responses to “Colored Code with Coldfusion”

  1. Raymond Camden on 14 Feb 2008 at 6:25 pm #

    Just so you know, there is also a formatString() option. Don’t forget you can dump Java objects to see their methods.

  2. Anuj Gakhar on 14 Feb 2008 at 6:56 pm #

    @Ray, yes thats right. Only after I dumped these , I found out about these 2 public methods. Very useful I think. Looks like there are lots of little hidden utilities out there.

  3. Michael Sharman on 15 Feb 2008 at 4:04 am #

    Ah another gem!

  4. SitePoint Blogs » The Week in ColdFusion: 13-19 Feb: Hidden gems on 21 Feb 2008 at 3:32 am #

    [...] correct dimensions, as Rupesh points out. Anuj Gakhar has found another hidden gem using Java – the ability to display color-coded source code using a method in one of the built-in libraries.  Ben Nadel has created a user-defined [...]

  5. Tracy Logan on 14 Oct 2008 at 4:34 pm #

    Thanks very much for posting this — it is exactly what I needed, a simple way to display tag-based source code.

  6. Anuj Gakhar on 14 Oct 2008 at 5:29 pm #

    @Tracy, thanks.

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