I don't understand the logic here...

<cfif #page_indicator_a# NEQ '1' OR #page_indicator_a# NEQ '2'>

won't work but this will

<cfif #page_indicator_a# NEQ '1'>
<cfif #page_indicator_a# NEQ '2'>


Can someone tell me why!?

What is your objective? What is the failure mode?

You are asking if the page is not 1 OR if it is not 2. That means if it is 1
it meets the second condition of NOT being 2.


Wouldn't it be easier to ask if #page_indicator_a# GT 2? Or
<cfif #page_indicator_a# NEQ '1' AND #page_indicator_a# NEQ '2'>

Wouldn't it be better if you use cfswitch instead of cfif?
<CFSWITCH expression="#page_indicator_a#">
<CFCASE value="1"> do something here</CFCASE>

<CFCASE value="2"> do something here </CFCASE>

</CFSWITCH>

idesdema wrote:

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> Can someone tell me why!?
>

As tclaremnot said it is the 'OR'. The if statement will be true if
either side is true. So if the value is 1 then it is NOT 2 and so the
combination is true. If the value is 2 then it is NOT 1 and so the
combination is true. If the value is 3 then both NOT 1 and NOT 2 is
true so it is true.

You have written a statement that can never be false, unless you can
somehow have a value that is both 1 and 2 at the exact same time.

Now that I have my boolean logic lecture out of my system your solutions
is probably either:


<cfif #page_indicator_a# NEQ '1' AND #page_indicator_a# NEQ '2'>

OR

<cfif NOT (#page_indicator_a# EQ '1' OR #page_indicator_a# EQ '2')>

There are lots of ways to do this. I took the question as theoretical, and there is most definatley a problem with the theory in the original posters CFIF statement!

It is clear now what I was doing wrong. OOPS. Thank you for the quick refresher course in boolean logic.

Sometimes when you've been coding all day my brain gets dull if not useless.