My bad, I just remember that it will still error on a zero so it looks like
you are going to have to do something like.
<cfif Val(theChars) AND Val(theChars) GTE 1>
<cfoutput>#Left(theWord, abs(Val(theChars)))#</cfoutput>
</cfif>
Hope that helps...
-Michael
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----- Original Message -----
From: David Cummins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 3:28 AM
Subject: Another Rhetorical Whinge
> Because it feels so good to get these things out of the system...
>
> Why does the ColdFusion Left() function only accept positive lengths, i.e.
not
> length zero? I've got to put an if condition in now to check for every
time a
> string is truncated to the empty string.
>
> Urgh.
>
> David
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