Question : Structs, Arrays and CF script

Two separate questions, but I'm sure someone will have quick answer to both.

I'm auto generating a form tool. For each form I need a name, caption, value, fieldtype and various other elements.

I want to loop through a list called formnamelist (e.g. "firstname,lastname,company,add1,add2")

Rather than having a list for each element (which means I must define at least one restrictred character which can't be in the list - whether it's a , or a |), I'd like to be able to programatically access the data for everything in

FieldFirstName.Value = "Peter"
FieldLastName.Caption = "Last Name"
or something similar (e.g. Field[FirstName][Caption])
Want to key off of the NAME of the field rather than just a regular numeric array.

Any thoughts?

Also an associated question (after looking at the cfstruct help docs) - where and why would I use a cfscript and what are the processing time implications.

Any good ideas appreciated!

Thanks,
Peter

Answer : Structs, Arrays and CF script

well you have to have some delimeter to have the list to begin with - so you have to decide what will be the delimeter.  Comma is a good choice because you don't want to have a field with a comma in the name.

cfscript processes faster in huge cases, but in most cases there is not a noticable difference in processing time.