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cfreturn

Returns result values from a component method. Contains an expression returned as result of the function.

An expression; the result of the function from which this tag is called.

Extensibility tags

<cfreturn 
   expr>

cfargument, cfcomponent, cffunction, cfinvoke, cfinvokeargument, cfobject, cfproperty

ColdFusion MX: Added this tag.

This tag is equivalent to a return statement within a cfscript tag. It accepts one return variable argument. To return more than one value, populate a structure with name-value-pairs, and return the structure with this tag.

To access the result value from this tag, you use the variable scope that is the value of the cfinvoke tag returnVariable attribute.

For example code, see Building and Using ColdFusion Components in Developing ColdFusion MX Applications.

<cfcomponent>
   <cffunction name="getEmp">
       <cfquery name="empQuery" datasource="ExampleApps" >
          SELECT FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME, EMAIL
          FROM tblEmployees
       </cfquery>
       <cfreturn empQuery>
   </cffunction>
   <cffunction name="getDept">
      <cfquery name="deptQuery" datasource="ExampleApps" >
          SELECT *
          FROM tblDepartments
       </cfquery>
       <cfreturn deptQuery>
   </cffunction>
</cfcomponent>

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