Awesome! Thanks Dave!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Inserting partial data or replace sections of data

> I am currently working with an exported set of data, one of the fields 
> contains social security numbers.  Currently when I input the data it 
> puts in the whole SSN.  I was wondering if there was a way to replace 
> the first 5 numbers with X and leave the last 4 numbers alone.  ie: 
> 123-45-6789 would become XXX-XX-6789.
> 
> This is purely for security reasons.  I thought about using the mask 
> function, but if I recall that would just be used to validate that the 
> SSN was formatted right.  I also thought about using the replace 
> function, but I have no clue where I would start there.

You don't need to do anything fancy for this:

<cfset sanitizedSSN = "XXX-XX-" & Right(SSN, 4)>

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/

Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction
at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore,
Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location.
Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information!



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
Create robust enterprise, web RIAs.
Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU

Archive: 
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:263280
Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

Reply via email to