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RE: Need help to convert a name in upper case, to mixed case

It works for me? For both version 5.2.13 and 5.5.32 (I know. We need to update) I get this:
MacDonald
McDonald
Oneill
O'Neill

From this source:

?php
/**
* Properly capitalize a name.
*
* @package NameCase
* @version 1.0.2
* @author Alex Dunae, Dialect <alex[at]dialect[dot]ca>
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2008, Alex Dunae
* @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
* @link http://dialect.ca/code/name-case/
*/

/**
* Apply properly capitalization rules to a name.
*
* @param string $str
* @returns string
*/

echo name_case('macdonald');
echo '<br>';
echo name_case('mcdonald');
echo '<br>';
echo name_case('oneill');
echo '<br>';
echo name_case("o'neill");
echo '<br>';
echo phpversion();

function name_case($str) {
// basic check for e-mail addresses to allow copy-and-paste of e-mail lists
if(strpos($str, '@') && strpos($str, '.'))
return $str;

if(function_exists('mb_convert_encoding'))
$str = @mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-8', 'auto');

$processed_chunks = array();

// build name chunks
$buffer = '';
for($i = 0; $i < strlen($str); $i++) {
// check for delimiters
if(preg_match('/[\s]+/', $str[$i]) > 0 || $str[$i] == '-' ||
$str[$i] == '.' || $str[$i] == ',') {
$processed_chunks[] = _process_name_case_chunk($buffer . $str[$i]);
$buffer = '';
} else {
$buffer .= $str[$i];
}
}

$processed_chunks[] = _process_name_case_chunk($buffer);
return trim(implode('', $processed_chunks));
}

/**
* Process the chunks generated by the namecase function.
*
* This function should not be called directly.
*
* @param string $str
* @returns string
* @see name_case
*/
function _process_name_case_chunk($str) {
// Surname prefixes
if(preg_match('/^(van|von|der|la|d[aeio]|d[ao]s|dit)[\s,]*$/i', $str))
return strtolower($str);

// Ordinal suffixes (I - VIII only)
if(preg_match('/^(i{3}|i{1,2}v?|v?i{1,2})[\s,]*$/i', $str))
return strtoupper($str);

if(function_exists('mb_convert_case'))
$str = mb_convert_case($str, MB_CASE_TITLE, 'UTF-8');
else
$str = ucfirst(strtolower($str));

// Second letter capitalized, like D'Angelo, McDonald, St. John, 0'Neil
if(preg_match('/(^|\s)+(Mc|[DO]\'|St\.|St[\.]?[\s]|Dewolf)/i', $str)) {
$str[2] = strtoupper($str[2]);
return $str;
}

// Third letter capitalized, like MacDonald, MacRae
if(preg_match('/(^|\s*)(Mac)(allist|arth|b|c(allu|art|ask|l|r|ull)|d|f|g|i(nn|nty|saa|v)|kinn|kn|l(a|ea|eo)|m|na[mu]|n[ei]|ph|q|ra|sw|ta|w)/i', $str)) {
// not h,
$str[3] = strtoupper($str[3]);
return $str;
}

return $str;
}


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 6:56 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Need help to convert a name in upper case, to mixed case

Will do mate.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jan 14, 2019, at 7:54 PM, Bruce Vining <bruce.vining@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon,

Let me know if I can help. It would certainly make a very useful
function :)

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:47 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Good point Bruce - Foolishly I had tested it with ONEIL and not O'NEIL.
Doh!

Can't get the PHP to work though - there's an error but I can't
figure it out.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jan 14, 2019, at 5:45 PM, Bruce Vining <bruce.vining@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jon,

It appears to correctly handle O'NEIL vs ONEIL. And it also appears
to handle prefixes pretty well -- as in CARMEN DE LAVALLADE being
returned as Carmen de Lavallade.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 3:58 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

This site https://dialect.ca/code/name-case/#output <
https://dialect.ca/code/name-case/#output> has a Regex based
routine
that
looks as if it could be converted to Regex in RPG or set up a
simple in-house web service or whatever to use it. PHP Source code
is here https://dialect.ca/code/name-case/name_case.phps <
https://dialect.ca/code/name-case/name_case.phps> but could be
adapted quite easily. It seems to handle most of the MACDONALD,
MCDONALD type stuff but not ONEIL.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jan 14, 2019, at 4:54 PM, Jack Woehr <
jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 2:46 PM Jack Woehr <
jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


There's no algorithm other than dictionary lookup that's going to
distinguish between the separate cases of

MacDonald
versus
Mackenzie


Besides, some people write O'Neil and some Oneil. What can a poor
computing
device do? :)

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