reverse

Description

Reverses the order of items, such as the characters in a string or the digits in a number.

Categories

Related

Syntax

Reverse(string)

Attributes

AttributeDescriptionRequiredDefault
stringA string or a variable that contains one

Returns

A copy of string, with the characters in reverse order.

Usage

You can call this function on a number with code such as the following:
<cfoutput>reverse(6*2) equals #reverse(6*2)#<cfoutput> This code outputs the following:
reverse(6*2) equals 21

Example

<h3>Reverse Example</h3> 
 
Reverse returns your string with the positions of the characters reversed. 
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.myString")> 
    <cfif FORM.myString is not ""> 
        Reverse returned: 
        <cfoutput>#Reverse(FORM.myString)#</cfoutput> 
    <cfelse> 
        Please enter a string to be reversed. 
    </cfif> 
</cfif> 
 
<form action = "reverse.cfm"> 
Enter a string to be reversed: 
<input type = "Text" name = "MyString"> 
<input type = "Submit" name = ""> 
</form>