Better way would be to use a comma delimited list of delimiters - i forgot
you could have more than one:
<cfset mydelimiters = chr(13) & "," & chr(10)>
No. of lines = #ListLen(mystring, mydelimiters)#
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> Subject: RE: Slightly OT question ...
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> Hi Bert,
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> I just wanted to say thanks for the information. It was
> the bit of
> code I was looking for to fix my problem.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Ryan Williams
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>
> Bert Dawson
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> anner.com> cc:
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> Subject: RE:
> Slightly OT question ...
> 05/09/01
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> 12:48 PM
>
> Please
>
> respond to
>
> fusebox
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> You could use ListLen(yourstring,delimiter) where the
> delimiter is a "hard
> return" - not sure whether you'll need to look for chr(10) or
> chr(13), or
> both:
>
> <cfset mystring = "line 1" & chr(10)
> & "line 2" & chr(10)
> & "line 3" & chr(13)
> & "line 4" & chr(10)
> & "line 5" & chr(13)
> & "the end">
>
> <cfset chr10 = ListLen(mystring, chr(10))>
> <cfset chr13 = ListLen(mystring, chr(13))>
>
> <pre>
> <cfoutput>
> #mystring#
>
> Number of chr(10) = #chr10#
> Number of chr(13) = #chr13#
> No of lines = #Evaluate(chr10 + chr13 - 1)#
> </cfoutput>
> </pre>
>
>
> HTH
>
> Bert
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: 09 May 2001 16:57
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> > Subject: Slightly OT question ...
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> >
> > 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.
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