Text limiting

[Wally Kolcz]

I have a dynamic field that tells the news that Coldfusion outputs on a
hompage. How can I limit the number of characters that news.News shows on
the page and just have it hyperlink to a full story.

<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td height="21"><div align="left">#news.Title# -<span
class="style1">#news.Date#</span></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="17"><div align="left">
<p><a href="fullstory.cfm?id=#news.ID#">#news.News#</a></p>
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="17">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>

Thanks

[The ScareCrow]

You can use the left function

Left(string, numberofcharacters)

Ken

[CyberShaman]

<CFOUTPUT query="yourQuery">

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td>

#yourQuery.Product#<br>
<cfif len(Description) gt 50>
#Left(Description, 50)#...(<a
href="fullDesc.cfm?more=#yourQuery.ID#">more</a>)
<cfelse>
#yourQuery.Description#
</cfif>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</cfoutput>

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Wally Kolcz <wkolcz@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I have a dynamic field that tells the news that Coldfusion outputs on a
> hompage. How can I limit the number of characters that news.News shows on
> the page and just have it hyperlink to a full story.
>
> <table width="100%">
> <tr>
> <td height="21"><div align="left">#news.Title# -<span
> class="style1">#news.Date#</span></div></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td height="17"><div align="left">
> <p><a href="fullstory.cfm?id=#news.ID#">#news.News#</a></p>
> </div></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td height="17">&nbsp;</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> Thanks
>
>