CFIF using Len Function

[Guest]

I have a page that display's products and it has descriptions in it that are pulled from a database however the problem is that we want to make them uniform and have the description fill 2 lines so my question is if I have a variable string that is 10 characters long then the way I was thinking is to add nbsp's to the end of the variable to make it = the string len of 24 plus 1 space make the line wrap to the next line. so I would have something like the code attached, does anyone else have a better way of doing it please let me know.

[Newsgroup_User]

cf has a nice repeatstring() function:

<cfoutput>
<cfif len(trim(string)) lt 25>
#repeatstring(' ', 25-len(trim(string))) & string#
<cfelseif len(trim(string)) gt 25>
#left(string, 22)#...
<cfelse>
#string#
</cfif>
</cfoutput>

hth

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[Miguel-F]

Why not just add a <br /> to any string that is less than 25 characters?

<cfset string = string & "<br />">