It shouldn't be too hard to take the midpoint then step forward and or
backwards to find a space character then break at that point.
Off the top of my head, completely untested:
<cfscript>
breakpoint = len(text)/4;
while (mid(text,breakpoint,1)) NEQ " ";
{
breakpoint = breakpoint - 1;
}
</cfscript>
You will need to add logic to move the breakpoint from section to section and
capture each section of text.
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....From: Greg Morphis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
....Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:57 AM
....To: CF-Talk
....Subject: Re: Dividing output??
....
....See I know I can do it with a delimiter... the only problem is where
....to put it.. I dont want one column longer than the others. This data
....will more than likely be fed into the DB. The delimiter wont normally
....be there. I know I could use mid but that does by character, not
....word.. so half of a word could be at the bottom of the first column
....and the other half at the top of the second.
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....On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:41:18 -0500, Umer Farooq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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....> Mid and Left functions should help out here.
....>
....> Greg Morphis wrote:
....> > Is it possible (I can't see how) to take a big block of text from the
....> > database and split it up into 4 columns within a table?
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