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  • Kimmo Laine
    #1

    ucfirst

    I have abunch of names that I'd like to normalize case-wise. Some are
    lowercase (joe jackson), some uppercase (JOE JACKSON), and some correctly
    cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolo wer('JOE JACKSON')); works for most
    cases, but if there's a name with a hyphen, ie. BILLY-BOB JOHNSON and
    jack-bob johnson and Bob-Bob Johnson, they're turned into Billy-bob etc...
    The letter after the hyphen should be uppercased as well, not just the ones
    after space. Anyone got idea how to do this?

    (Then there are names like McGyver or MacCartney and O'Reilly... But that's
    okay, we have so few of this kind of names in Finland it doesn't matter.)

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    • BLob
      #2
      Re: ucfirst

      I have abunch of names that I'd like to normalize case-wise. Some are
      lowercase (joe jackson), some uppercase (JOE JACKSON), and some correctly
      cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolo wer('JOE JACKSON')); works for most
      cases, but if there's a name with a hyphen, ie. BILLY-BOB JOHNSON and
      jack-bob johnson and Bob-Bob Johnson, they're turned into Billy-bob etc...
      Lucky you if "your" names do not have accents signs (meaning é, è, ê and
      others) ! Otherwise your method wouldn't work, as it would transform
      "STEPHANE" into "Stephane" ("STEPHANE" is correct because capital letters do
      not take accents, whereas "Stephane" should be written "Stéphane") .
      The letter after the hyphen should be uppercased as well, not just the
      ones
      after space. Anyone got idea how to do this?
      A dirty trick :
      Replace "-" by "- ".
      Then do your ucfirst(strtolo wer($name));
      Them replace back "- " by "-".
      That should do it !


      BLob


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        • Kimmo Laine
          #3
          Re: ucfirst

          "BLob" <blob@nospam.in validwrote in message
          news:44f6fcd3$0 $5098$ba4acef3@ news.orange.fr. ..
          >I have abunch of names that I'd like to normalize case-wise. Some are
          >lowercase (joe jackson), some uppercase (JOE JACKSON), and some correctly
          >cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolo wer('JOE JACKSON')); works for most
          >cases, but if there's a name with a hyphen, ie. BILLY-BOB JOHNSON and
          >jack-bob johnson and Bob-Bob Johnson, they're turned into Billy-bob
          >etc...
          >
          Lucky you if "your" names do not have accents signs (meaning é, è, ê and
          others) ! Otherwise your method wouldn't work, as it would transform
          "STEPHANE" into "Stephane" ("STEPHANE" is correct because capital letters
          do
          not take accents, whereas "Stephane" should be written "Stéphane") .
          >
          >The letter after the hyphen should be uppercased as well, not just the
          ones
          >after space. Anyone got idea how to do this?
          >
          A dirty trick :
          Replace "-" by "- ".
          Then do your ucfirst(strtolo wer($name));
          Them replace back "- " by "-".
          That should do it !
          >

          Oh, I never thought of that. How silly, of course that'll work. Good ol'
          dirty hacks. :)

          Thanks BLob

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            • Kimmo Laine
              #4
              Re: ucfirst

              "Kimmo Laine" <spam@outolempi .netwrote in message
              news:h_AJg.1580 $xC5.86@reader1 .news.jippii.ne t...
              cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolo wer('JOE JACKSON')); works for most
              Whoops... Obviously that was supposed to be ucwords :)

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