I found this help from the CF documentation. This might help
you with your question. It demonstrates the LEFT function. You can
rewrite your code to do just that for now.
<h3>Left Example</h3>
<cfif IsDefined("Form.myText")>
<!--- If len returns 0 (zero), then show error message.
--->
<cfif Len(Form.myText)>
<cfif Len(Form.myText) LTE Form.RemoveChars>
<cfoutput><p style="color: red; font-weight:
bold">Your string #Form.myText# only has #Len(Form.myText)#
characters. You cannot output
the #Form.removeChars# leftmost characters of this string
because it is
not long enough.</p></cfoutput>
<cfelse>
<cfoutput><p>Your original string:
<strong>#Form.myText#</strong></p>
<p>Your changed string, showing only the
<strong>#Form.removeChars#
</strong> leftmost characters:
<strong>#Left(Form.myText,
Form.removeChars)#</strong></p>
</cfoutput>
</cfif>
<cfelse>
<p style="color: red; font-weight: bold">Please enter
a string of more than 0 (zero) characters.</p>
</cfif>
</cfif>
<form
action="<cfoutput>#CGI.ScriptName#</cfoutput>"
method="POST">
<p>Type in some text<br />
<input type="Text" name="myText"></p>
<p>How many characters from the left do you want to
show?
<select name="RemoveChars">
<option value="1">1
<option value="3" selected>3
<option value="5">5
<option value="7">7
<option value="9">9</select>
<input type="Submit" name="Submit" value="Remove
characters"></p>
</form>
Hope it helps..
Sevor Klu
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