Chris Beaumont wrote:
Hi,
I just realized I need to split a potentially pretty long textfield input from a web form into 2000 character chunks, for input into a database. I see a lot of string functions in DTML, but none that looks like it will do this..
Use a Python Script: <params>yourstring</params> offset = 0 list=[] while offset + 2000 < len(yourstring): list.append(yourstring[:2000]) offset = offset + 2000 list.append(yourstring[offset:]) return list then you can do: <dtml-in yourexternalmethod> ...with the 2000 char chunks. Well, hope this helps. I'm sure there's at least one off-by-one bug in the above. It'd be a lot easier to do if regular expressions were available in python scripts: return re.findall('.{0,2000}',yourstring) ...but sadly we're not allowed to use regular expressions in pythno scripts in case we break something :-(( cheers, Chris