pf » Looping over Date Ranges

On the CF-Talk mailing list today someone asked how to loop over a range of dates, eg from 6/1/04 to 8/6/04. Most people including myself responded that you can use DateAdd and cfloop to do this. But John Beynon posted the simplest solution:

<cfset startDate= "06/01/2004">
<cfset endDate = "08/06/2004">

<cfloop from="#startDate#" to="#endDate#" index="i">
  <cfoutput>#dateformat(i, "mm/dd/yyyy")#<br /></cfoutput>
</cfloop>

I didn't know you could use dates in the from and to attributes of cfloop. I had to try it myself, and sure enough it works. I checked the documentation and I didn't see any mention of it - learn something new everyday.