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mornings80
mornings80
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Jul 13, 2018 11:05 PM UTC
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CF: Is it possible to display only the first few words of a memo field?

I am using Coldfusion and I would like to display the first few words in a database memo (unlimited text) field as a link for the user to select the whole record. Is it possible to limit the display of the text in the memo field to just a few words?

As an example:

<A HREF="AFIELD.cfm?ID=#URLEncodedFormat(ID)#"> #AName#: #AText#:

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BKBK
BKBKCorrect answer
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Jul 15, 2018 9:12 PM UTC

Check out this function from cflib.org for getting a given number of words from a string.

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BKBK
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BKBKCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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Jul 15, 2018 9:12 PM UTC

Check out this function from cflib.org for getting a given number of words from a string.

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mornings80
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Jul 15, 2018 9:37 PM UTC

Thank you, BKBK!

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