Locating A File, Replacing Text Within File

[dnayana]

Is it possible to find a file on a server and replacing specific text within that file via CF code?

I would like the user to make a selection from a drop down box and based on his/her selection, I would like to write code to locate the file, find data (within the file) that contains a certain phrase, and then replace that text based on the user's selection.

<cfif isdefined("form.change")>
		<cfswitch expression="#form.color#">
			<cfcase value="Green">
				<cfif FileExists("c:\cfusionmx\[URL unfurl="true"]wwwroot\dtralink\index.cfm")>[/URL]
					<cffile action="append" 
				file="c:\cfusionmx\[URL unfurl="true"]wwwroot\dtralink\index.cfm"[/URL] 
				output="#Replace("/operating_status/os_button_includes/green.cfm", "/operating_status/os_button_includes/yellow.cfm","one")#">
					<cflocation url="index.cfm">
				</cfif>
			</cfcase>

			<cfcase value="Red">
				<cfif FileExists("c:\cfusionmx\[URL unfurl="true"]wwwroot\dtralink\index.cfm")>[/URL]
					<cfif 
					<cfoutput>#Replace("/operating_status/os_button_includes/red.cfm", "/operating_status/os_button_includes/green.cfm","one")#"></cfoutput>
					<cflocation url="index.cfm">
				</cfif>
			</cfcase>
		</cfswitch>
</cfif>


<form action="#cgi.SCRIPT_NAME#" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<table border="0">
	<tr>
		<td>Select Status</td>
		<td><select name="color">		
		<option value=""></option>
		<option value="Green">Open</option>
		<option value="Orange">Open - Early Dismissal</option>
		<option value="Red">Closed</option>
		<option value="Yellow1">Open - Unscheduled Leave</option>
		<option value="Yellow2">Open - Delayed Arrival</option>
		<option value="Yellow3">Delayed Arrival/Unscheduled Leave</option>
		</select>						
		</td>
	</tr>
<tr>
<td width="" valign="top" colspan="2" align="center"><br><input type="submit" value="Change Color" name="Change"></td>
					</tr>	
</table>
</form>

Thank you in advance to anyone who can assist/point me in the right direction.

 

[MorganGreylock]

I've not tried this out, but one thing you might try is to read the file in using CFFILE, then replace the text that you want to replace, then create a new file (presumably with the same name, thereby overwriting or deleting the original) with the data that contains the replaced string.

Hope that helps,

MG