Thank you very much it worked like a charm!!!
>From: "Emily B. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: DISPLAY QUESTION
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:05:06 -0600
>
>ahh...i couldn't help myself. had to find a fix so i did the following. i
>"hard-coded" the 7th word by replacing it with ***** - that assumes that
>you won't have five *'s in a row in any of your strings - and then i
>located those stars to get the position to start removing from.
>
>anyway...hope this helps. if anyone knows of a cleaner way to do this, i'd
>love to see it. like i said, i'm not much of a parser. now i really gotta
>go! :) -emily ps...the code is really only 4 lines long but i did a lot of
>cfoutputs so you could see the variables being created at each step.
>
>**************
>
><CFSET var="a long string of text from which i want to get six words.">
><!--- get the length of the string --->
><CFSET VarLen=Len(var)>
><CFOUTPUT>
>len of var: #varlen#
></CFOUTPUT>
><BR><BR>
>
><!--- GetToken() finds the 7th word and ReplaceNoCase() replaces it with
>***** --->
><CFSET ReplaceWithStars=ReplaceNoCase(var, GetToken(var,7," "), "*****")>
><CFOUTPUT>
>replace with stars (using a space as the word delimeter):
>#ReplaceWithStars#
></CFOUTPUT>
><BR><BR>
>
><!--- FindNoCase() finds the position of the stars - you must subtract 1 to
>get rid of the space after the 6th word --->
><CFSET Var6WordsPosition=FindNoCase("*****", ReplaceWithStars)-1>
><CFOUTPUT>
>position after 6th word: #Var6WordsPosition#
></CFOUTPUT>
><BR><BR>
>
><CFSET var6Words=RemoveChars(var, Var6WordsPosition, VarLen)>
>
><CFOUTPUT>
>the six words: "#var6words#"
></CFOUTPUT>
>
>********************
>
>At 04:43 PM 4/10/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >ok, this is my quick hack to your problem. i already know that there is a
> >problem with it...if the word in the 6th position also occurs in an
>earlier
> >position, then your results are based on that one instead of the right
>one.
> >i don't have time right now to fix this, but felt compelled to give you
> >SOMETHING since i gave you the wrong info earlier when i read your e-mail
> >too quickly. i'm not great at parsing, so i'm sure someone else can give
> >you a better workaround. if they don't, i'll fix this later tonight when
>i
> >have more time. -emily
>
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