Yeah, its just the zero thing. I don't quite understand why they did that. It's
standard to allow Left(string,0) in most other languages.... *sigh*
David
Michael Imhoff wrote:
>
> 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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