Try something like this. It's easier to write than to explain :)
<cfset myString="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.">
<cfset n = 30>
<cfif not mid(myString,n,1) eq " ">
<cfset n = find(" ",myString,n)>
</cfif>
<cfset myString = left(myString,n)>
<cfoutput>#myString#</cfoutput>
Good Luck!
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:30 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RegEx or something else?
If I am outputting the first n characters of a string to a page, like this:
The quick brown fox jumped over...
And I want to make sure I never get this:
The quick brown fox jumped o....
Would I used RegEx? Or something else? What's the easiest way to make sure
that that last bit of the string displayed is a whole word?
Thanks,
Ian
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