Try the "Left" string function. From the CF Language Reference manual:
Left
Returns the count of characters from the beginning of a string argument.
Syntax
Left(string, count)
string
String from which the leftmost characters are retrieved.
count
Positive integer indicating how many characters to return.
For example, if your database news story field is called "story" then:
<CFOUTPUT>#Left(Story, 100)# </CFOUTPUT> will show the first 100
characters.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kelly Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:39 PM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: Question...
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>Ok can this be done. Say I have small database of news stories and
>on the front page of the website we want to include say the first
>sentence or 2 of the story which then links to the full story. How
>do I, for the front page, limit it to only pull and display the first
>so many characters of the story instead of the whole thing?? Can this
>be done?
>Kelly
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