Coldfusion finding date in an array - arrays

Question

Need help finding a specific date in an array.
I have an Array Populated from a JSON file. Would like a form to enter in a date then return the data if it's in the Array.
This is what I've tried so far.
<!---Form and submit button to enter date--->
<p>
<cfform name="pickdate" id="pickdate" >
<cfinput required="yes" name="datepicker" type="datefield" id="datepicker" validate="USDATE">
<cfinput type="submit" name="insertpbnum" value="Enter" id="submit">
</cfform>
</p>
<br>
<br>
<!---Get lotto numbers from JSON file--->
<cfhttp url="https://data.ny.gov/api/views/d6yy-54nr/rows.json?accessType=DOWNLOAD" method="get" result="httpResp" timeout="120">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />
</cfhttp>
<cfset pbdata=deserializeJSON(httpResp.filecontent)>
<cfoutput>
<!---loop thru JSON file to grab lotto numbers and dates--->
<cfloop from="1" to="#arrayLen(pbdata.data)#" index="i">
<!---change xml date-time format to Coldfusion formate--->
#arrayFind(datetimeformat(Parsedatetime(pbdata.data[i][9]),"MM-DD-YYYY","datepicker"))#
<!---#i#: #Parsedatetime(pbdata.data[i][9])# : #pbdata.data[i][10]#---><br />
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>
I'm I going about this the correct way. Or is it better to put the array into a database?
Thanks

Answer 1

This is a different approach, but will hopefully accomplish what your trying to do. This solution throws the data into a query and then performs a query of query (QOQ) to check for the date.
<cfhttp url="https://data.ny.gov/api/views/d6yy-54nr/rows.json?accessType=DOWNLOAD" method="get" result="httpResp" timeout="120">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />
</cfhttp>
<cfset pbdata=deserializeJSON(httpResp.filecontent)>
<!--- Get list of column names --->
<cfset columnList = "" />
<cfloop from="1" to="11" index="i">
<cfset columnList = listAppend(columnList, replace(pbdata.meta.view.columns[i].name, " ", "", "All")) />
</cfloop>
<!--- Populate data into query --->
<cfset qryData = queryNew(columnList) />
<cfset dataRowCount = arrayLen(pbdata.data) />
<cfset queryAddRow(qryData, dataRowCount) />
<cfloop from="1" to="#dataRowCount#" index="i">
<cfloop from="1" to="#arrayLen(pbdata.data[i])#" index="j">
<cfif j EQ 11 AND pbdata.data[i][j] EQ "null">
<!--- default multiplier field to 0 if null --->
<cfset querySetCell(qryData, listGetAt(columnList, j), 0, i) />
<cfelse>
<cfset querySetCell(qryData, listGetAt(columnList, j), pbdata.data[i][j], i) />
</cfif>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<!--- Query the recordset --->
<cfquery name="rs" dbtype="query">
SELECT *
FROM qryData
WHERE DrawDate = '#dateFormat("5/26/2010", "YYYY-MM-DD")#T00:00:00'
</cfquery>
<cfdump var="#rs#" />