Maybe something along the lines of:
<cfset final="">
<cfloop list="#form.entry#" delimiters=" " index="word">
<cfset final = listappend(final, UCase(left(word, 1)))
</cfloop>
That would give you a comma separated list of each letter that you could
do any number of things with.
HTH
Hatton
Disclaimer: The code presented has NOT be tested for syntax.... gotta
leave you *something* to do.
Edward McDermott wrote:
> I want to be able to take a string, for example a journal article title, and
> parse out just the initial characters of each word. For example: "This is a
> Cold Fusion Article" becomes "TIACFA". Thanks in advance.
>
> Ed
>
> Edward J. McDermott
> Systems Librarian
> Robert H. Goddard Library
> Clark University
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> Worcester, MA 01610
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