a little more of "LEFT" function

[Newsgroup_User]

Please help us polish the "left" function. For the search result, we are
showing only 400 characters in the page with #left(search_result, 400)# ...
function. The problem is the 400 count doesn't exactly cut the content by
words, so a lot of them are displayed as incomplete words. Is there a way
to prevent this?

YC

[Guest]

After you do your Left( ) function, you're left with a space-delimited list. The code below will give you a whole word at the end.

[Newsgroup_User]

Thank you,
That's simple, but very smart.

YC

"jdeline" <jdeline@deline.com> wrote in message
news:e8jnhj$8ut$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> After you do your Left( ) function, you're left with a space-delimited
> list.
> The code below will give you a whole word at the end.
>
>
> <CFSET foo = Left(longText, 400)>
> <CFSET bar = ListDeleteAt(foo, ListLen(foo, " "), " ")>
>

[Newsgroup_User]

I like this FullLeft function...
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=329


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"YC" <asppsa@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:e8jk32$4n2$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Please help us polish the "left" function. For the search result, we are showing only 400 characters in the page with
> #left(search_result, 400)# ... function. The problem is the 400 count doesn't exactly cut the content by words, so a lot of
> them are displayed as incomplete words. Is there a way to prevent this?
>
> YC
>