splitting a string into multiple sections
If I have a long text string, and want to chop it up into sections and extract each section, like: (1 537 825) first section is position 1-536 second section is position 537 to 824 third section is 825-end can someone suggest a CF approach to do it? have not done it before. tnx if you can help ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339742 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: splitting a string into multiple sections
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Rick Colman rcol...@cox.net wrote: If I have a long text string, and want to chop it up into sections and extract each section, like: (1 537 825) first section is position 1-536 second section is position 537 to 824 third section is 825-end can someone suggest a CF approach to do it? you mean like using MID()? http://www.cfquickdocs.com/cf8/#Mid Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339744 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: splitting a string into multiple sections
Check the docs for the insert() function. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339745 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: splitting a string into multiple sections
Left(string,536) Mid(string,537,287) Mid(string,825,len(string)) On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Rick Colman rcol...@cox.net wrote: If I have a long text string, and want to chop it up into sections and extract each section, like: (1 537 825) first section is position 1-536 second section is position 537 to 824 third section is 825-end can someone suggest a CF approach to do it? have not done it before. tnx if you can help ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339747 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
