> What was the original thread for this reply? Ignore this if I'm being
too nosey
> but I'm intrigued by that little function and would like to know what
it's for :-)
Oh, it was someone asking how to display the first x chars of a string
pulled from a database without it splitting a word in two. I noticed the
udf that someone linked to was more than a few lines of code and
remembered the code below that someone posted ages ago to deal with the
same problem.
<cfscript>
function trimContent(string, chars) {
return trim(reverse(listRest(reverse(left(string, chars)),
"")));
}
</cfscript>
<cfoutput>#trimContent("This is the content that's been drawn from the
database", 15)#</cfoutput>
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Macromedia ColdFusion Developer
Fairbanks Environmental Ltd +44 (0)1695 51775
Queen's Awards Winner 2003 <http://www.fairbanks.co.uk/go/awards>
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