Thanks Jon. Reason I had to get a "cover up" as it was preventing things working for registered members. I'm working on the proper fix now to stop it causing the erroneous tags.
Cheers Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: cf-talk Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 3:02 AM Subject: Re: Removing HTML tags from cflocation URL > The way to fix this is to fix the problem that is causing the bad data > to exist in the first place, not cover it up with a workaround. > > However, the workaround is fairly straightforward. > > <cfset url = "http://www.test.com</a></p>"> > <cflocation url="#left(url, find("<",str,1) - 1)#"> > > jon > W Luke wrote: > > >Hi. > > > >I have a bit of a problem with URLs and Cflocation. Occasionally, a URL is > >submitted into the Database which contains extra HTML tags that aren't > >needed as shown below: > > > >http://www.mywebpage.com</a></p> > > > >Cflocation doesn't (yet!) have the power to strip out non-URL content such > >as </a> and </p>, AFAIK, and as such it errors. What I need to do is assign > >the link to a var prior to unleashing cflocation onto it, and validate it > >and remove any erroneous tags if there are any to make it a nice clean link. > > > >Is this is long refindnocase job, or is there a tag or function that could > >help? > > > >Many thanks once again. > > > >Will > > > > > >-- > >http://www.localbounty.com - free local and national advertising > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
