Is Odd or Even Function

Adam Cameron wrote:
> Just a note to Azadi, Kronin555 & Ian:
>
> A "MOD 2" operation already resolves to a boolean, so the further
> comparison to 0 or 1 is not necessary.
>

To be precise... since it is lunch time on the Pacific coast... I am
very hungry... I only have an Maruchan 'Instant Lunch' cup of noodles to
eat... And thus I am in a bit of an argumentative mood...

Thanks to ColdFusion typeless nature the results of a "MOD 2" operation
can be reliably converted to a boolean.

But some do not care to code with this implicit conversion so they like
to be explicit with their comparisons.

Also, as I *KNOW* you are fully aware of Adam, it could be confusing to
somebody who has not been exposed to the MOD operator before and thus
may not be clear on what it does. Thus such person should really read
the documentation on what MOD does! ;-)

Just a note to Azadi, Kronin555 & Ian:

A "MOD 2" operation already resolves to a boolean, so the further
comparison to 0 or 1 is not necessary.

{code}
<cfif i mod 2>
odd
<cfelse>
even
</cfif>
{code}

--
Adam

PopcornCoder wrote:
> Is there a way to take a number from the database and determine weather or not
> it is odd or even?
>
> I am listing a number of employees and I want to alternate the background
> color of the cells of the table housing their names on a webpage.
>

The mod operator can be used for this.

<cfif aValue MOD 2 eq 1>
aValue is ODD
<cfelse>
aValue is EVEN
</cfelse>

OR

<cfif aValue MOD 2 eq 0>
aValue is EVEN
<cfelse>
aValue is ODD
</cfelse>

<cfoutput query="yourquery">

<tr bgcolor="#iif(CurrentRow mod 2, de(colour1), de(colour2))#">

<cfif number mod 2 eq 0>
even
<cfelse>
odd
</cfif>

use MOD operator:
<cfif someintegervalue MOD 2 eq 0>
even
<cfelse>
odd
</cfif>

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/