http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T22:11:15 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funca111.htm#39278 Need to exercise caution while using special characters:<br /><cfset wrd1="&nbsp;"><br /><cfset lnwrd1=Len(#wrd1#)><br /><cfset lngth1=trim(#lnwrd1#)><br /><cfset wrd2=" &nbsp; "><br /><cfset lnwrd2=Len(#wrd2#)><br /><cfset lngth2=trim(#lnwrd2#)><br /><cfoutput><br />wrd1 is : #wrd1#<br /><br><br />lnwrd1 is: #lnwrd1#<br /><br><br />lngth1 is: #lngth1#<br /><br><br />wrd2 is: #wrd2#<br /><br><br />lnwrd2 is: #lnwrd2#<br /><br><br />lngth2 is: #lngth2#<br /><!---<br />-----output---<br />wrd1 is : <br />lnwrd1 is: 6<br />lngth1 is: 6<br />wrd2 is: <br />lnwrd2 is: 8<br />lngth2 is: 8---><br /><br /></cfoutput> mysorian 0 0 2005-09-08T06:27:17 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funca111.htm#28124 This does NOT, however, get rid of Chr (160) which is unicode for &nbsp;.<br />This can be a gotcha when processing text inputs. MikerRoo 0 0 2005-02-18T02:07:39 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/funca111.htm#19386 Trim in fact removes not only spaces. I found some other characters that Trim removes. Please consider the following code:<br /><br /><cfset mdWddx = " "&chr(10)&chr(13)&chr(9)&chr(7)&chr(11)&" "> <br /><cfoutput><br>len = #len(mdWddx)#</cfoutput><br /><cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#len(mdWddx)#"><br /> <cfoutput><br>character #i# is #asc(mid(mdWddx,i,1))#</cfoutput><br /></cfloop><br /><cfset mdWddx=trim(mdWddx)><br /><cfoutput><br>len = #len(mdWddx)#</cfoutput><br /><cfloop index="i" from="1" to="#len(mdWddx)#"><br /> <cfoutput><br>character #i# is #asc(mid(mdWddx,i,1))#</cfoutput><br /></cfloop><br /><br />The result is:<br />len = 7 <br />character 1 is 32 <br />character 2 is 10 <br />character 3 is 13 <br />character 4 is 9 <br />character 5 is 7 <br />character 6 is 11 <br />character 7 is 32 <br />len = 0 <br /><br />Is it a bug or a feature? Belikov 0 0 2004-08-03T11:12:27