Take a look at ListLen(). You could do something like ListLen(Variable,
chr(10)).
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:56 AM
Subject: Slightly OT question ...
> I would like to know if any of the string functions in Coldfusion can
> detect and/or count the number of hard returns inside of a text string.
> The outcome that I am looking for is to dynamicly calculate the number of
> rows for the textarea that I display the string's content inside of. I
> need to be able to detect and count the number of hard returns inside this
> string and add that many rows to the request.rownum calculation so that
the
> entire string is visible inside the textarea box.
>
> Here is a snippet of my current code.
>
> <cfset st=REFindNoCase("([ ])
> +(\1)",qGet_MeetingMinutes.MM_BodyOfMeeting,1,"TRUE")> (this line was my
> attempt at finding blank spaces longer then 1 space within the text string
> - it didnt work.)
> <cfset request.RowNum=(len(qGet_MeetingMinutes.MM_BodyOfMeeting)/66)+3>
>
> <textarea name="BodyOfMeetingMinutes" cols="66" rows="#request.RowNum#"
> wrap="soft">#trim(qGet_MeetingMinutes.MM_BodyOfMeeting)#</textarea>
>
> Note: the field ".MM_BodyOfMeeting" is a text field (of default length) in
> our SQL Database.
>
> This works fine as long as there is no hard returns or long series of
> spaces inside of it. If this column is blank the textarea defaults to 3
> rows. I have looked through my coldfusion books and the online help with
> no success. If anyone has any suggestions please reply to me off list.
> Thanks.
>
>
> Ryan Williams
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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