When and how to trim string

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May 27, 2009
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Not sure the best way around this issue. In a query I have the following:

SUBSTRING(blogStories.blogBody,1,220) AS blogBody

Later, when I go to display this, I want to strip the html so I have this:

<cfoutput>#trimmedBodyText#</cfoutput> ... (more)

This is where the problem comes in. If my SQL query happens to end in the middle of a string like this:

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Then the REReplaceNoCase causes problems because there is no end tag.

Can I do this in SQL, or should I pull the whole story, do the REReplaceNoCase and then trim it? If so, what is the command in ColdFusion for trimming? Everything I've found only trims spaces. I can't seem to specify a length anywhere.

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Lee CrockettAuthor

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OK, I hadn't received an answer and I kept digging and found the LEFT command, so what I have done is changed my query to get the entire story then I run this code for the output

#variables.blogStory#... (more)</td>

Then the problem was that sometimes I'd get cut off in the middle of a word, so I've changed it to this to find the last word and remove it:

#variables.blogStory#... (more)</td>

This solves the problem for me. I get the output I want, but I'm sure there is a more elegant way of doing this with less code. If anyone knows of one, I'd love to hear it.