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I assumed Jeff meant "1st-letter-upper-otherwise-lower". Hence the casing of
his question:
Is there an API or sample code for converting a text string from UPPER
CASE to Drop Case?
Any, the quick answer is that there isn't a single API. However, you could
do something like this (untested):
string = %xlate( UpperChars : LowerChars : string );
ConvertToUpper = *off;
for x = 1 to %len( string );
char = %subst( string : x : 1 );
if ConvertToUpper = *on and char <> ' ';
string = %xlate( LowerChars : UpperChars : char );
%subst( string : x : 1 ) = char;
ConvertToUpper = *off;
else;
if char = ' '; <=======
ConvertToUpper = *on;
endif;
endif;
endfor;
Although maybe you only want to capitalize the first letter in a sentence,
so you'd use this at <=======:
if char = '.' and %subst( string : x + 1 : 1 ) = ' ';
although that would throw an error if the last character in the string is a
period. Plus you'd be better off basing char on a pointer, to avoid all
those silly substrings back and forth.
And maybe I was wrong about what Jeff wanted anyway.
Rory
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is "Drop Case"?
Is it another name for lower case?
Alan Shore
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