Treat the field as a list with space as delimiters: <cfset list = "one two three"> <cfoutput>#listlen(list," ")#</cfoutput>
CF doesn't count empty list members, so no matter how much consecutive white space you have between words, this will still return the correct number. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perez, Bismark" <> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:19 AM Subject: Counting the number of words in a field Is there a way to accomplish this? I have a database field for which I want to know the number of words it contains, I though that since a field could also be a list, I'll treat it as such and try to find the number of white spaces, and that will give me an approximation of how many words it contains (I trim() the field before placing it on the DB), but somehow trying to find the number of occurrences of the white space in the list does not work. I used the: ListFind(mylist, " ", " ") Does anybody knows of a way this will work, in a list setting or through another way? ____________________________________________________________________________ ____ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists ________________________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
