You can do several things...
Using the "." as a list delimiter, you could use listfirst()
If you know that the extension will always be 3 characters plus a ".", you
can use left(var,val(len(var)-4))
blah blah blah
Heath
-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:56 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: trim a string variable
Is there a way to trim a string like : file.jpg
to : file
(aka knock off the last 4 characters)
<cfset newfilename = #left(File.ServerFile,4)#> Does not work because the
name of the file in the database could be longer then 4 characters
Is there a function that im missing to trim off the last 4 characters of a
variable?
Thanks
Chad
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