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February 10, 2009
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String index out of range: -22

  • February 10, 2009
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I'm getting the error message "String index out of range: -22" for my cffile upload, Here's the cffile code. The error says it is happening on the cffile line.

<cffile action="upload" filefield="form.new_file" destination="X:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Training\NewSite" nameconflict="OVERWRITE">

The file is being sent by the form below:
<cfform action="ilearntutorialchange.cfm" method="POST" name="theaddition" enctype="multipart/form-data">

<input type="File" name="new_file">

<input type="submit" name="add" value="Add">

Dumping the variables on the page gives me
new_file = E:\CFusionMX7\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\neotmp22674.tmp
add = add
fieldnames = add, new_file

I'm using MX 7. If I try to upload a file off the same server I get "string index out of range: -2" I've tried looking in the cf administrator but I'm not finding where I check on the settings of cffile. If I need to make changes in the administrator can someone point me to where this is?
Thanks
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    Correct answer wam4
    Thanks for all the tips. I finally got it working on the test box using MX7 but not on the production server (go figure).

    This code works
    <cffile action="upload" filefield="new_file" destination="/Inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/subfolder" nameconflict="MAKEUNIQUE">

    This might help others to know that String Index out of range is one of those error messages that fits numerous error scenarios. I started noticing that changing the destination path, changed the number in the error message as in "String index out of range: -17 or -22 or -2 or -10"

    For others with the same issue try looking at the destination path first. Thanks again for the help.

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    wam4AuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    February 11, 2009
    Thanks for all the tips. I finally got it working on the test box using MX7 but not on the production server (go figure).

    This code works
    <cffile action="upload" filefield="new_file" destination="/Inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/subfolder" nameconflict="MAKEUNIQUE">

    This might help others to know that String Index out of range is one of those error messages that fits numerous error scenarios. I started noticing that changing the destination path, changed the number in the error message as in "String index out of range: -17 or -22 or -2 or -10"

    For others with the same issue try looking at the destination path first. Thanks again for the help.
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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    February 10, 2009
    > This is a guess.

    Come on Dan. Your favourite saying is "if you don't have the docs, the
    internet does".

    I only draw attention to this because your advice is dead wrong:


    > You need octothorps around your form variable in your cffile tag.

    (from *the docs*: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/Tags_f_10.html)

    fileField (Required)
    Name of form field used to select the file.
    Do not use number signs (#) to specify the field name.


    Back to the original problem, I used to see that quite a lot on CFMX 6.1
    (maybe early versions of CFMX7), when CF was cocking-up (technical term)
    the compilation of CFM templates.

    I've not seen it in situations other than that.

    Tell me: have you got your class files set to save? Perhaps delete
    everything in your cfclasses dir (WEB-INF/cfclasses on multi-server
    install. Not sure where it is on a standard install, sorry), restart CF
    and try again.

    --
    Adam
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    wam4Author
    Inspiring
    February 10, 2009
    It may be an MX7 issue. We have CF 8 up as a test server (for now) and it works fine on that one and you can't have the hash marks on the filefield variable. I'm chalking it up to that.
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    wam4Author
    Inspiring
    February 10, 2009
    changing the cffile code to:
    filefield="#form.new_file#"

    gives me the new error :
    The form field "E:\CFusionMX7\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\neotmp22678.tmp" did not contain a file
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    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    February 10, 2009
    This is a guess.

    You need octothorps around your form variable in your cffile tag.
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