How about:
<cfset textVar = "This is a really wonderful, and nice chunk of text.">
<cfloop from="21" to="1" step="-1" index="CharPosition">
<cfif Mid(textVar, CharPosition, 1) is " ">
<cfset first20 = Left(textVar,(CharPosition - 1))>
<cfbreak>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfoutput>#first20#</cfoutput>
David Gassner
Vintage Business Applications
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Lott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 12:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Left X characters without breaking a word...
>
>
> Any ideas on the most efficient way to grab the leftmost 20
> characters of a
> field, or as close as possible without going over, but without chopping a
> word in the middle? For instance, given the following text:
>
> This is a really wonderful, and nice chunk of text.
>
> I would want to break it after "Really" because taking the first 20 would
> break the text in the middle of the word "wonderful"...
>
> c
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