Ahhhh...hadn't thought about that. I'll see about finding and replacing
that.

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web developer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 3:17 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Coldfusion creating an excel file, problems....


I'll take a wild guess and suggest that the problem is not the &, but
the <.  Your ColdFusion will happily spit that account number out, but
the web browser will try to do something with anything that starts with
<.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:06 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Coldfusion creating an excel file, problems....
>
> I'm using CF to create an Excel file for me on the fly. There
> are currently
> 2500 records in the db, but when I create the Excel file I
> only get 1850,
> and the content gets cut off right in mid record. I'm
> wondering if there's
> some crazy character in one of the fields that's doing it.
> Does anyone have
> any ideas? Here's some samples of the Account NUmber field
> (from the client,
> not from me):
>
> A4062834023)_<D,NRan
> A4042737277%2NV(ITim
> A5021563429#` %4PAmy
> A5021563429%L*)<PHec
> A4052758846!E#CPOBri
> A4042744086&Y+H?NJen
>
> Here's the column where the output stops:
> A0072037096&<%Y6OMit
>
> I get nothing after this snippet: A0072037096&, but there are
> other fields
> that have & in them and no problem.
>
>
> And here's the code I'm using:
>
> <cfheader name="content-disposition"
> value="attachment;filename=Fortna_Mailing_List.xls">
> <cfcontent type="application/msexcel">
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title> new document </title>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <cfquery name="outputList" dataSource="#Application.DSN#"
> dbType="#Application.DBType#" username="#Application.username#"
> password="#Application.password#">
>       SELECT *
>       FROM mailinglist
> </cfquery>
>
> <table id="excel_tbl">
> <tr>
>       <td>Subscribe Date</td>
>       <td>Account Number</td>
>       <td>Name</td>
>       <td>Organization</td>
>       <td>Email Address</td>
>       <td>Phone</td>
>       <td>Send Email?</td>
>       <td>Subscribe Status</td>
> </tr>
> <cfoutput query="outputList">
> <tr>
>       <td>#DateFormat(info_dateadded,"mm-dd-yyyy")#</td>
>       <td>#info_accountno#</td>
>       <td>#info_name#</td>
>       <td>#info_org#</td>
>       <td>#info_email#</td>
>       <td>#info_phone#</td>
>       <td>#info_sendemail#</td>
>       <td>#info_status#</td>
> </tr>
> </cfoutput>
> </table>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> <!----------------//------
> andy matthews
> web developer
> ICGLink, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 615.370.1530 x737
> --------------//--------->
>
>
>



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