Yet another way.. With regular expressions:

<cfset maskDigits=8>
<cfset masked=REReplace(CCnum,"^[0-9]{#maskDigits#}",repeatString("*",maskDigits))>

-Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:56 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Replacing characters in a string


This should be a simple enough one...

I have a credit card number, 16 digits long, and I want to star (*) out the
middle 8. How do I do this?

TIA
Ryan



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