Don't forget to check CFLib for things like this... http://www.cflib.org/udf/firstParagraph
-Cameron On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Robert Harrison <[email protected] > wrote: > > Trying to write a function to get the first paragraph in a string. My test > string is: > > <h2>Remove the a header</h2><p>This is the marigold > following the header. This is more.</p><p>This is another paragraph.</p> > > The idea is two steps: Get everything to the LEFT of the </p> (this > works), then get everything to the right of the first <p> tag... this is > working strangely. Any thoughts? The trouble is in the Right extract. > > function getFirstParagraph(str) { > str = trim(str); > endTag = findNoCase("</p>", str); > startTag = findNoCase("<p>", str); > if (endTag gt 0) { > endTag = endTag + 3; > extract = left(str, endTag); > } else { > extract = str; > } > if (startTag gt 0) { > startTag = startTag + 4; > extract = right(extract, startTag); > } else { > extract = str; > } > return extract; > } > </cfscript> > > <cfoutput>#getFirstParagraph(comment)#</cfoutput> > > > Thanks > > Robert Harrison > Director of Interactive Services > > Austin & Williams > Advertising I Branding I Digital I Direct > 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 I Hauppauge, NY 11788 > T 631.231.6600 X 119 F 631.434.7022 > http://www.austin-williams.com > > Blog: http://www.austin-williams.com/blog > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/austin_williams > > -- Cameron Childress -- p: 678.637.5072 im: cameroncf facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cameroncf> | twitter<http://twitter.com/cameronc> | google+ <https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117829379451708140985> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:351440 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
