Thanks all- I knew it was super easy- I had stuck in rtrim instead of right-
my bleary eyes didn't catch it- 

-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 3:30 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Quicky


The other poster had it right, but just to be anal, bare in mind yo dont
need either the quotes or pounds below. Simply use:

right(field1,12)

not

"#right(field1,12)#"

Yes, I'm being anal. ;)

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Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra Compliance Engineer for Macromedia

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"My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Giesenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 3:27 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Quicky
> 
> 
> <cfset variable = "#Right(field1, 12)#">
> 
> That will get the rightmost characters (9 of them) from your field.
> 
> Paul Giesenhagen
> QuillDesign
> http://www.quilldesign.com
> SiteDirector v2.0 - Commerce Builder
> 
> 
> 
> > I know the answer is easy, but it's late on Friday and it's 
> been a long
> > week...
> > Ok I need to set a variable with CFSET- (not in a query) to 
> be the last 12
> > characters of another field.
> > ie:
> > I want
> > FIELD1:  12345678901234567890
> > to be set as:
> > FIELD2:  901234567890
> > Thanks in advance.
> > j
> > 
> 

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