CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Puts line breaks into text to make it appear vertically.

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>#VerticalText("Hello World")#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Take a string, make it appear vertically.
 * 
 * @param text      Text to modify. (Required)
 * @return Returns a string. 
 * @author Nathan Dintenfass (nathan@changemedia.com) 
 * @version 1, August 14, 2002 
 */
function VerticalText(text){
    //build an array of the characters in the string
    var arrText = arrayNew(1);
    //a variable for looping
    var ii = 1;
    //the len of the string
    var textLen = len(text);
    //resize the array the length of the string
    arrayResize(arrText,textLen);
    //loop through the length of the string, building the array
    for(ii = 1; ii LTE textLen; ii = ii + 1){
        arrText[ii] = mid(text,ii,1);
    }
    return arrayToList(arrText,"<br />");
}