expandPath bug in CF8

I've just encountered a very annoying bug with the expandPath function in CF8.

Take the following code:

<cfset MyDir = "."/> <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="5"> <cfset MyDir = expandPath(MyDir)/> <cfoutput><br/>#MyDir#</cfoutput> </cfloop>

Run the code through Railo and you will get exactly the right behaviour, with the current directory output five times:

C:\dev\scratch C:\dev\scratch C:\dev\scratch C:\dev\scratch C:\dev\scratch

Now go run the same code with CF8 - and this is what you get:

F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch\F:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\scratch

It simply stacks the current directory onto the front each time. Very frustrating.

In order to get round this, I created a regular expression to pull off the last value of any directory containing more than one colon - this will work for Windows machines, but may need to be changed for Linux or MacOSX machines (if the bug affects these).

<cfif isDefined('Server.ColdFusion.ProductName') AND Server.ColdFusion.ProductName EQ 'ColdFusion Server' AND ListLen( MyDir ,':') GT 2> <cfset MyDir = REreplace( MyDir , "^.*([A-Z]:[^:]+)$" , "\1" )/> </cfif>

CFML Engine Comparison

I have just published the CFML Engine Wiki, a website to compare and detail the features and differences of the top CFML engines.

There is still a lot of work to be done with it, but with it being a wiki I decided it better to release the URL and allow others to help with doing that.

www.cfml-engines.info