RE: Convert upper case to lower case

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The few times I have had to do this process the business problem was that it
was a one-time conversion.  Therefore there was a trade off between
programming time and benefit.

In each instance the most cost effective method was to do the rough
conversion and then throw this "best guess" onto a screen and have humans
make what ever corrections seemed obvious.   A good operator can do a whole
lot of records really fast, especially if there are not a lot of McDonalds. 
They don't get paid anywhere near what a programmer does, so there's a trade
off.
 
 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:30:00 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Convert upper case to lower case
 
Rob,
 
The names like McDonald are a problem. We decided to not worry about them at
the
time the procedure was written. It would take WAY to much coding to handle
those special cases. But for some reason I sort of remember researching 
proper
casing' utilities and coming up with some suggestions.
 
-- Scott Johnson
 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:31 AM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: Convert upper case to lower case
>
>
> Mine addressed the first letter of the string itself, if you
> followed my
> admonishment to substring it. However you bring up a good
> point, if they
> want to capitalize the first letter of every word. The
> former would work
> for a single sentence. The latter may be required for a name field
> containing both first and last. Then there's always the
> exception to the
> rule. Names like deVries, McDonald, etc.
>
> Rob Berendt
> --
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin