I'm trying to break a large chunk of text, so, a user can click on MORE to to
read the rest of it.
Using the following technique has some success, however, it does not seem to
be good enough.
-- cut off point, 500 characters
<cfset brkR = MID(myTxt,500,5)>
<cfset brk = Find(" ", brkR)>
<cfoutput>
#Left(myTxt,500+brk)#
then, upon clicking the MORE link, it display the rest as follows:
-- the main body of the txt
#Mid(myTxt,501+brk,Len(myTxt))#
</cfoutput>
Attempt to use
<cfset brk = REFind("[\s]", brkR)>
does not help or I didn't do it right.
It sort of works, but an issue is, it now shows &, nbsp; etc. special
characters in the "breaking" area. Question, what is a better way to do this?
If we stick with this method, how to use RegExp to remove the special
characters in the output.
Thanks.
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