Erika, you can treat it as a list with "/" as the delimiter:
<cfset list="14/12">
<cfset firstnumber=listGetAt(list, 1, "/")>
<cfset firstnumber=listGetAt(list, 2, "/")>
David Gassner
Vintage Business Applications
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erika Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Help Parsing a String
>
>
> I have a field that contains the number of authorized vehicles vs. the
> number of assigned vehicles like this: 14/12. What function
> would I use to
> grab everything to the left of the "/" and then everything to the right of
> the "/" to display them in separate text boxes?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Erika Foster
> engineering-environmental Management
> Applications Developer
> (505) 866-1654
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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