Saturday (Stuart Kidd) wrote: >Hi, > >I'm trying to do something which i can imagine is very simple but >can't find the function. When i display a title ><cfoutput>#myTitle#</cfoutput> i'd like to just display the first 15 >characters and if more then put three dots (periods). I know the LEN >function but i can't work out how to replace the text with dots after >the 15th character. > > #IIF(Len(fieldname) GT 15, DE(Left(fieldname, 15) & "..."), DE(fieldname))#
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