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Conversion functions

Last update:
May 18, 2026
FunctionDescription
ArrayToList Converts a one-dimensional array to a list.
BinaryDecode Converts a string to a binary object.
BinaryEncode Converts a binary data to a string.
CharsetDecodeConverts a string to a binary representation.
CharsetEncode Converts a binary data to a string using a specified encoding.
DeserializeJSON Converts a JSON string to a ColdFusion structure.
DotNetToCFType Converts a value returned by a .NET method to the corresponding ColdFusion data type.
Hash Converts a string into a fixed length hexadecimal string.
Hmac Creates a keyed-hash message authentication code (HMAC).
LCase Converts the alphabetic characters in a string to lowercase.
ListToArray Copies the elements of a list to an array.
SerializeJSON Converts a ColdFusion variable into a JSON string.
ToBase64 Calculates the Base64 representation of a string or binary object.
ToBinary Calculates the binary representation of Base64-encoded data.
ToScript
Creates a JavaScript or ActionScript expression that

assigns the value of a ColdFusion variable to a JavaScript

or ActionScript variable.
ToString Converts a value to a string.
URLDecode Decodes a URL-encoded string.
URLEncodedFormat Generates a URL-encoded string.
Val Converts numeric characters that occur at the beginning of a string to a number.
XmlFormat Escapes special XML characters in a string so that the string can be used as a text in XML.
XmlParse Converts an XML document that is represented as a string variable into an XML document object.
XmlTransform
Applies an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)

to an XML document object that is represented as a string

variable.

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