limit display of text
I have a filed, #report.maint_report_task#, that will be displayed via a cfoutput. How can I display just a portion of what the field contains? If it contains: blah, blah, blah, blah Because of display constraints, I want it to just display a portion with the three periods after it: blah, blah Does the trim function factor into this? Robert O. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: limit display of text
as with most all programming langs, CF has String functions Left(), Right(), and Mid().So for what you want to do, something like this will do #Left(report.maint_report_task,25)#... see http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/functi17.htm#wp1099887 Doug -Original Message- From: Robert Orlini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:05 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: limit display of text I have a filed, #report.maint_report_task#, that will be displayed via a cfoutput. How can I display just a portion of what the field contains? If it contains: blah, blah, blah, blah Because of display constraints, I want it to just display a portion with the three periods after it: blah, blah Does the trim function factor into this? Robert O. _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: limit display of text
Thanks much Doug... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: limit display of text as with most all programming langs, CF has String functions Left(), Right(), and Mid().So for what you want to do, something like this will do #Left(report.maint_report_task,25)#... see http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/functi17.htm#wp1099887 Doug -Original Message- From: Robert Orlini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:05 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: limit display of text I have a filed, #report.maint_report_task#, that will be displayed via a cfoutput. How can I display just a portion of what the field contains? If it contains: blah, blah, blah, blah Because of display constraints, I want it to just display a portion with the three periods after it: blah, blah Does the trim function factor into this? Robert O. _ _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: limit display of text
this will do #Left(report.maint_report_task,25)#... Out of curiosity, that will trim based on number of characters, yes? How would one grab the first X number of whole words. IOW trim characters but stop at a space. Would you need to combine that with some regex? - Regards, Bob Haroche O n P o i n tS o l u t i o n s www.OnPointSolutions.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: limit display of text
Something like this I've used before cfset startString = left(aString,REFind([[:space:]],aString,25) This will create a string equal to beginning of aString broke at the first white space character AT or -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA C code. C code run. Run code run. Please! - Cynthia Dunning AFTER character 25. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: limit display of text
Well you treat the resulting string as a list with space as the ldelimiter an d delete the last list element. So you get whole only words with a maximal length as specified in the Left-function. Anyone else doing it like this? Patric this will do #Left(report.maint_report_task,25)#... BH Out of curiosity, that will trim based on number of characters, yes? BH How would one grab the first X number of whole words. IOW trim BH characters but stop at a space. Would you need to combine that with BH some regex? BH - BH Regards, BH Bob Haroche BH O n P o i n tS o l u t i o n s BH www.OnPointSolutions.com BH [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: limit display of text
I have a filed, #report.maint_report_task#, that will be displayed via a cfoutput. How can I display just a portion of what the field contains? If it contains: blah, blah, blah, blah Because of display constraints, I want it to just display a portion with the three periods after it: blah, blah Does the trim function factor into this? Robert O. You may also want to look at some of the CFlib functions: For instance, the function MaxLength() does exactly what you want http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=489 Limits the length of string output to a specified length and appends ... to indicate the string has been trimmed. Ideal for limiting a string's length in a table without wrapping. Another is GetWords() http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=130 Supply a string and number of words to return, this returns that number of words with an ellipsis at the end. If the number of words argument is greater than the actual number of words, the original string will be returned without the ellipsis. And there's FullLeft() http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=329 An enhanced version of left() that doesn't cut words off in the middle; instead, it searches backward until it finds a full word. Warnings Note that FullLeft() acts just like the built-in function Left() in the event only one word is passed to it, or the count parameter is less than the length of the first word in the passed string. hth, larry -- Larry C. Lyons Web Analyst BEI Resources American Type Culture Collection email: llyons(at)atcc(dot)org tel: 703.365.2700.2678 -- [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: limit display of text
Or, you could just use this UDF:
cfscript
/**
* Displays n number of characters from a string without cutting off in the
middle of a word
* Code used from FullLeft
*
* @param stringString to be modified. (Required)
* @param numberNumber of characters to include in teaser. (Required)
* @param urlArgumentURL to use for 'more' link. (Optional)
* @return Returns a string.
* @author Bryan LaPlante ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* @version 3, July 31, 2003
*/
function FormatTeaser(string,number){
var urlArgument = ;
var shortString = ;
//return quickly if string is short or no spaces at all
if(len(string) lte number or not refind([[:space:]],string)) return
string;
if(arrayLen(arguments) gt 2) urlArgument = ... a href="" arguments[3]
[more]/a;
//Full Left code (http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=329)
if(reFind([[:space:]],mid(string,number+1,1))) {
shortString = left(string,number);
} else {
if(number-refind([[:space:]], reverse(mid(string,1,number
shortString = Left(string, (number-refind([[:space:]],
reverse(mid(string,1,number);
else shortString = left(str,1);
}
return shortString urlArgument;
}
/cfscript
- Original Message -
From: Bob Haroche
this will do #Left(report.maint_report_task,25)#...
Out of curiosity, that will trim based on number of characters, yes?
How would one grab the first X number of whole words. IOW trim
characters but stop at a space. Would you need to combine that with
some regex?
-
Regards,
Bob Haroche
O n P o i n tS o l u t i o n s
www.OnPointSolutions.com
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