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Old September 9th, 2004, 01:51 PM
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Including < or > in strings

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Ok, i have string from a DB that i want CF to output into a table cell without using an object. The string can include the < or > signs which, of course, mess with the tags when displayed. Is there any way to convert these to their special character equivalents without having to do a character by character check?

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You could just use replace to replace them with ASCII codes. You can also look into functions like htmlCodeFormat().
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The htmleditFormat function did the trick! thanks!

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