A method for performing processing on form field values defined in a list

modelGlueFormDataParser.cfc

<cffunction name="collectFormDataAndTrim" access="public" returntype="void" output="false" hint="I collect the form values">
    <cfargument name="event" type="any">
    <cfset var loc= StructNew()>
    
    <cfset loc.propertyList= arguments.event.getArgument("propertyList","")>
    <cfif loc.propertyList EQ "">
        <cfset loc.propertyList= arguments.event.getValue("fieldnames")>
    </cfif>
    
    <cfset loc.form= StructNew()>
    <cfloop index="loc.prop" list="#loc.propertyList#" delimiters=",">
        <cfset loc.propValue= arguments.event.getValue(loc.prop)>
        <cfif IsNumeric(loc.propValue)>
            <cfset loc.form[loc.prop]= loc.propValue>
        <cfelse>
            <cfset loc.form[loc.prop]= Trim(HTMLEditFormat(beans.miscService.removeMSWordChars(loc.propValue)))>
        </cfif>
    </cfloop>
		
    <cfset arguments.event.setValue("form",loc.form)>
</cffunction>