Re: show x words not x characters
A sentence is effectively a space-delimited list of words. So just do ListLeft(myvar,5,' ') However, words can be an unpredictable length, so this might not be exactly what you want. Here's some code that will give the first 100 characters, keeping words whole, and adding a html ellipsis onto the end: Just change the 90 to 20 or 25, strip the … part, and it should do what you want. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321625 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: show x words not x characters
>There should be a UDF for that @ cflib.org I would search for "word count" >or some such. > >G! > >On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Glyn Jackson >wrote: > >> thanks ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321624 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: show x words not x characters
There should be a UDF for that @ cflib.org I would search for "word count" or some such. G! On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Glyn Jackson wrote: > > Ho every one, bit of a simple question, > > my website shows a snippet of text using the 'left(myvar,30)' function in > ColdFusion. however this some times cuts off words mid flow, is there a > function in CF that shows x words and not x characters? > > thanks in advance > > > ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321622 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: show x words not x characters
Treat the string as a list with any chars you see fit to be word delimiters, so spaces, tabs, full stops etc, then extract N elements from the left of the list. Adrian > -Original Message- > From: Glyn Jackson [mailto:glyn.jack...@newebia.co.uk] > Sent: 15 April 2009 17:02 > To: cf-talk > Subject: show x words not x characters > > > Ho every one, bit of a simple question, > > my website shows a snippet of text using the 'left(myvar,30)' function > in ColdFusion. however this some times cuts off words mid flow, is > there a function in CF that shows x words and not x characters? > > thanks in advance ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321621 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
