[thelist] ASP: First 100 words in a record

Robert Goodyear rob_goodyear at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 19 16:15:01 CDT 2002


Yes, that's what I am proposing with my nested loops
to skip through the html tag delimiters. A simple
count for spaces would not account for the html
coding.

/rg


--- Michael Mell <mike at nthwave.net> wrote:

>
> not sure about efficiency, but if you're going the
> loop route, you might
> as well check each character from the beginning,
> counting the word
> boundary characters as you go. When you hit 100 word
> boundary
> characters, you've got your first 100 words.
>


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