<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="3">
<cfif ListLen(textField, ".") GTE i>
#List GetAt(textField, 3, ".")#
<cfelse>
<!--- no more sentences --->
<cfbreak>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfif ListLen(textField, ".") GT 3>
<!--- it was truncated --->
read the rest of this news item
<cfelse>
read more news stories
</cfif>
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eam.net> Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] truncating
section of text...
25/07/2003
16:38
Please
respond to
dev
I've got this far:
<cfloop index="d" list="#copy#" delimiters=".">
#d#
</cfloop>
but of course that outputs the whole list (ie the whole news item).
I've tried from="1" to="3"
and I've tried endrow="3"
but both methods throw an error.
any ideas?
Ian W
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>
> you could treat the text as a list, with the fullstop as the delimiter.
> loop through the list 3 times. if the list length is > 3, then it's been
> truncated.
>
>
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truncating section of text...
>
> 25/07/2003
> 16:14
> Please
> respond to
> dev
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi
> I have a 'news' table featuring, er, news stories about arts
organisations.
> I'd like to pull one at random and feature it on the front page of the
> site. I've managed that no problem. But some of the news items are rather
> long, and what I'd like to do is just feature the first two or three
> sentences.
>
> so is there any way (regex?) of truncating the text at the third full
stop;
> and is there anyway of knowing whether this is _all_ the text or whether
> there is more that has been truncated? I'd like to output one of two
links:
>
> 'read the rest of this news item' if there is more text which has been
> truncated out, or
> 'read more news stories' if in fact the three sentences that appear was
the
> whole news item.
>
> anyone any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Ian W
>
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