Hi ken,
I just wanted to say thanks for the information. It did the trick
nicely :)
Cheers
Ryan Williams
Ken Beard
<kenb@stonegr To: Fusebox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Slightly OT question ...
05/09/01
03:55 PM
Please
respond to
fusebox
<cfset numOfCharReturns=listlen(string,chr(13))-1>
At 11:56 AM 5/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>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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