RE: How to trim text (read inside)

2002-02-21 Thread Jim Curran
: Thursday, February 21, 2002 2:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How to trim text (read inside) The only problem with this is that it will cut it off in mid-word. So, you can just loop from 1000 down to 1 and check for the end of a word/parag raph, and when it is found, take that index to do the Left().

RE: How to trim text (read inside)

2002-02-21 Thread BEN MORRIS
er char position 1000 and trims at that point. Add a ... < more > link to the full article and you're set - j jim.curran technical.director nylon.technology 212.691.1134 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 200

RE: How to trim text (read inside)

2002-02-21 Thread Jim Curran
on 1000 and trims at that point. Add a ... < more > link to the full article and you're set - j jim.curran technical.director nylon.technology 212.691.1134 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 5:14 PM T

How to trim text (read inside)

2002-02-21 Thread Webmaster
I have a database table that contains news headlines. I was wondering how to be able to take like the first 100 - 200 words of the news story and display it in a "introduction" like section. What I want is that when people come to the site, they see the latest headlines with the headline, the date

Re: How to trim text (read inside)

2002-02-21 Thread Webmaster
Nevermind, I answered that myself. Used the #Left(info,250)#... "Webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 3c6d8994$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:3c6d8994$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have a database table that contains news headlines. I was wondering how to > be able to take like the first 100 -