Tom,
Thanks for the idea, but I am stuck with CF 4.0.1 at the moment. However
won't your function just insert at the 70th character regardless of whether
is falls within a word? What I am trying to do is a "friendly" line break.
Never breaking into a word unless the word is over 60-70 characters long,
which is not likely.
Best regards,
Dennis Powers
UXB Internet
(203)879-2844
http://www.uxbinfo.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: tom muck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Formatting Text for Email/Text Files
Here's a function for CF 5:
call it like <cfset mybody = makeNiceEmail(mybody,70)>
<cfscript>
function makeNiceEmail(string, theLength) {
CRLF=chr(13);
for (i=theLength-1;i LTE Len(string);i=i+theLength){
string = Insert(CRLF,string,i);
}
return string;
}
</cfscript>
tom
www.basic-ultradev.com
"Dennis Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> It has been a long working weekend and my brain is suitably befuddled at
the
> moment. I am attempting to format text for use in an email or a RAW text
> file and wish to insert a carriage return/line feed at the closest space,
> with out breaking the words, to the 60-70 characters point for each line.
>
> I am pulling text data out of a database that only has CR/LF breaks at the
> paragraph level. The paragraphs can run several hundreds words (don't
ask -
> it's PhD speak stuff) I need to create text files from the data with CR/LF
> breaks inserted within the paragraphs to break at a space within the
> 60-70-character point.
>
> I am sure someone has done this before and am hoping that you might be
> willing to take pity on one of your fellow CF'ers and share some code.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dennis Powers
> UXB Internet
> (203)879-2844
> http://www.uxbinfo.com/
>
>
>
>
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