Ahhh! Very good, work like a charm- Thanks!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Dray
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:13 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: CFSEARCH results: HTML vs. Plain Text
>
>
> Hurahh, at last something I can help with....
>
> I am duty bound to point out that I grabbed this code from a custom tag on
> the dev exchange, their are plenty there.
>
>
> <cfset source="#yourTextString#">
> <cfscript>
> EndLoop = 0;
> StartPosition = 1;
> while (StartPosition gt 0){
> StartPosition =
> REFindNoCase("</*[[:alpha:]]",source);
> if(StartPosition gt 0){
> endPosition=Find(">",source,StartPosition);
> if(endPosition gt 0){
> source =
> RemoveChars(source,StartPosition,EndPosition-StartPosition+1);
> startPosition = 1;
> }
> }else{
> endLoop = 1;
> }
> }
> OutputText=trim(source);
> </cfscript>
>
> <cfoutput>#source#</cfoutput>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Klepner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 13 March 2002 14:31
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: CFSEARCH results: HTML vs. Plain Text
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've got lightly formatted HTML in a database (bold / italic / lists). I'm
> using the CFINDEX Query function to fill a CFCOLLECTION. My problem is the
> HTML. I'd prefer to display my search results as plain text. Is
> there a way
> to strip HTML formatting? I've tried the string functions, but
> just haven't
> figured out how to eliminate the HTML. Can someone give me a couple
> pointers?
>
> Thanks,
> Lou Klepner
>
>
>
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