Hi,

I would like to know how to do this, I have this big text stored in a db, but when I get the info back, I wan't to be able to spread it out, and make it look nicer by section, I need to enter a special char, like '\n' or something, that would identify the end of the section, and allow me to display just that part, then move along to the next one... does anyone have any ideas how to do it

If the text is being stored with hard returns, all you need is to do a simple search and replace of vbcrlf with "<br>". Change "<br>" to anything you want. You could even do something like this:

Response.Write "<p>"
Response.Write Replace(objRecordSet("myBigTextField"), vbcrlf, "</p><p>")
Response.Write "</p>"

This would wrap every "paragraph" in the row value within a <p> tag. Then you could set formatting for the <p> to help space things out as you want.

Peter
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        Dim nSplit As Int32 'how many word you want to split
        Dim nCount As Int32 = CInt(strBig.Length / nSplit)
        For i As Int32 = 0 To nCount - 1
            strBig.Insert(nSplit * i, "<br>")
        Next
        If nSplit * nCount <> strBig.Length Then
            strBig.Insert(strBig.Length, "<br>")
        End If
        Response.Write(strBig)

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