Combine two functions

[fran7]

Hi, I wonder if someone can tell me if its possible to combine two functions. Both work fine as they are written here, but i need them to work together in the output. I imagine that one must write to combine sNewsTitle and sDescription = statement.

Thanks for any pointers of theory
Richard



function 1 (shorten text)

Function Shorten(sString, sLength) 
If Len (sString) > sLength Then 
         Shorten = Left(sString,sLength) & "...." 
Else 
         Shorten = sString
End If 
End Function 
 

Dim sNewsTitle
sNewsTitle= rs("statement")
 
 
 
 
<%
sNewsTitle=Shorten(sNewsTitle,190)    
Response.Write sNewsTitle 
%>

function 2 ( to strip html from string)

Function RemoveHTML( strText )
    Dim TAGLIST
    TAGLIST = ";!--;!DOCTYPE;A;ACRONYM;ADDRESS;APPLET;AREA;B;BASE;BASEFONT;" &_
              "BGSOUND;BIG;BLOCKQUOTE;BODY;BR;BUTTON;CAPTION;CENTER;CITE;CODE;" &_
              "COL;COLGROUP;COMMENT;DD;DEL;DFN;DIR;DIV;DL;DT;EM;EMBED;FIELDSET;" &_
              "FONT;FORM;FRAME;FRAMESET;HEAD;H1;H2;H3;H4;H5;H6;HR;HTML;I;IFRAME;IMG;" &_
              "INPUT;INS;ISINDEX;KBD;LABEL;LAYER;LAGEND;LI;LINK;LISTING;MAP;MARQUEE;" &_
              "MENU;META;NOBR;NOFRAMES;NOSCRIPT;OBJECT;OL;OPTION;P;PARAM;PLAINTEXT;" &_
              "PRE;Q;S;SAMP;SCRIPT;SELECT;SMALL;SPAN;STRIKE;STRONG;STYLE;SUB;SUP;" &_
              "TABLE;TBODY;TD;TEXTAREA;TFOOT;TH;THEAD;TITLE;TR;TT;U;UL;VAR;WBR;XMP;"
 
    Const BLOCKTAGLIST = ";APPLET;EMBED;FRAMESET;HEAD;NOFRAMES;NOSCRIPT;OBJECT;SCRIPT;STYLE;"
 
    Dim nPos1
    Dim nPos2
    Dim nPos3
    Dim strResult
    Dim strTagName
    Dim bRemove
    Dim bSearchForBlock
 
    nPos1 = InStr(strText, "<")
    Do While nPos1 > 0
        nPos2 = InStr(nPos1 + 1, strText, ">")
        If nPos2 > 0 Then
            strTagName = Mid(strText, nPos1 + 1, nPos2 - nPos1 - 1)
        strTagName = Replace(Replace(strTagName, vbCr, " "), vbLf, " ")
 
            nPos3 = InStr(strTagName, " ")
            If nPos3 > 0 Then
                strTagName = Left(strTagName, nPos3 - 1)
            End If
 
            If Left(strTagName, 1) = "/" Then
                strTagName = Mid(strTagName, 2)
                bSearchForBlock = False
            Else
                bSearchForBlock = True
            End If
 
            If InStr(1, TAGLIST, ";" & strTagName & ";", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
                bRemove = True
                If bSearchForBlock Then
                    If InStr(1, BLOCKTAGLIST, ";" & strTagName & ";", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
                        nPos2 = Len(strText)
                        nPos3 = InStr(nPos1 + 1, strText, "</" & strTagName, vbTextCompare)
                        If nPos3 > 0 Then
                            nPos3 = InStr(nPos3 + 1, strText, ">")
                        End If
 
                        If nPos3 > 0 Then
                            nPos2 = nPos3
                        End If
                    End If
                End If
            Else
                bRemove = False
            End If
 
            If bRemove Then
                strResult = strResult & Left(strText, nPos1 - 1)
                strText = Mid(strText, nPos2 + 1)
            Else
                strResult = strResult & Left(strText, nPos1)
                strText = Mid(strText, nPos1 + 1)
            End If
        Else
            strResult = strResult & strText
            strText = ""
        End If
 
        nPos1 = InStr(strText, "<")
    Loop
    strResult = strResult & strText
 
    RemoveHTML = strResult
End Function
 
 

<%
 
Dim sDescription
sDescription = rs("statement")
 
If IsBlank(rs("statement"))  Then
%> 
<p>This member has not yet written a statement</p>
<%
Else
%> 
 
<p>
 
<%=RemoveHTML(sDescription)%>
</p>
<%
End If
%> 

[Rabbit]

You haven't explained how you want to combine them.

[fran7]

Hi, Oh sorry. I want the results from the field "statement" to be shortened and also stripped of html.
Thanks for any pointers
Richard

[Rabbit]

Shorten(RemoveHTML(statement), 190)