If you see > on screen, it's probably > (or < for <) in reality. This is how you display < > in browsers since <> are normally used for HTML. If you want to remove them, you can do:
<cfset cleaned = replace(str,"<","","all") and also do a replace for > (or use replacelist). ======================================================================== === Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: James Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 2:57 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Stripping <> from string > > > Hello, > > I'm parsing an XML string and can't figure out how to remove > the "<" and ">" from the string. > > Here's a sample string: > >6800468< > > The value above is returned from a function "MidString" found > at CFLib.org. Here's how I'm trying to get the numbers from > between the > < symbols: > > <cfset TransIDStart = "TransactionID"> > <cfset TransIDEnd = "/TransactionID"> > <cfset TransID = #MidString(XMLReturn,TransIDStart,TransIDEnd)#> > <cfset TID = #Mid(TransID,1,Len(TransID)-1)#> > > I have also tried this: > <cfset TID = #RemoveChars(TransID,1,2)#> > > And it returns a real funky string: > > t;6800470< > > Thanks, > > James > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
