Parsing a string

Thanks all, I got it figured out googling it. I am a developer, so the logic I get, it's more or less the syntax changes that I am trying to pick up on. It's an inherited application that had to have mods made to it, and they needed them implemented asap. So, I was just hoping for a push in the right direction, and google helped. :)

In case anyone else has the same issue, I did indeed use the right(), left(), mid() functions

Have a look at the Coldfusion string functions. You can do your magic with left(), mid(), removeChars() or right().

google is your freind. to find out how a function works, search on "coldfusion function_name x" where x is the version number. It's optional.

To find out how a tag works, search on "<cfTagName> x".

The functions you need are left(), mid(), right(), and len().

What part are you having trouble with? ColdFusion as all the standard
string manipulation functions found in just about every programming
language.
[ http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Part_3_CFML_Ref_1.html
They will easily do this depending on how exactly you want to do it.

To be nice, I would probably make use of the standard left(), right()
and mid() functions, but that is by no means the only way to skin this
requirement.