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JWhitney
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 Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:16 pm
Capitalizing All Words In A String (%proper?)
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I'm trying to create a function that will capitalize all words (separated by spaces), similar to the %proper function except I want it to capitalize EACH word, not just the first.
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If @proper(@string) is used:
Any way to do this? Seems like it would be somewhat common, but I couldn't find anyone else asking for it by searching forums.. |
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shalimar
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:30 pm
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#FORALL %words(@var) {#IF (%i != %proper(%i)) {var=%replace(@var, %i, %proper(%i))}}
that should work
might end up with some odd capitalization with really short words unless you give it two passes |
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JWhitney
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:13 am
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Hmm I'm trying to put this in a function, so I adjusted the @var calls to %1's like this:
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#LOCAL $titleproper
#FORALL %word(%1) {#IF (%i != %proper(%i)) {$titleproper = %replace(%1, %i, %proper(%i))}}
#RETURN $titleproper |
but it is only capitalizing the last item in the string, and ignoring the rest. The idea is I want to be able to leave the string itself unaltered, but when using the function like @titleproper(@stringlistname), it will display with proper casing on each word. Any way around this? |
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JWhitney
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:19 am
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Found a way around it, like this:
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#LOCAL $titleproper
$titleproper = %1
#FORALL %word($titleproper) {#IF (%i != %proper(%i)) {$titleproper = %replace($titleproper, %i, %proper(%i))}}
#RETURN $titleproper |
Any way to do the same thing for plain text in a string, rather than a string list? |
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shalimar
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:04 am
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that should work for strings because it is using the output of the %word function, and not he variable directly
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MattLofton
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:06 am
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%word() is being incorrectly used here. %word() requires two parameters, the source string to work on and the word position you wish to return.
You may wish to convert %word() to %list(), using the space character as the delimiter:
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#function ProperAllWords {
//TODO: set up the exclusion list of words, leave blank to capitalize all words
$disallowed_words = ""
#loop 1,%numwords(%1) {
$word = %word(%1,%i)
#if ((%i = 1) or (%i = %numwords(%1))) {
//always capitalize the first and last words
$word = %proper($word)
} {
#if (!%ismember($word,$disallowed_words)) {
//only capitalize if it's not a disallowed word
$word = %proper($word)
}
}
$result = %additem($word,$result)
}
#return %replace($result,"|"," ")
} |
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shalimar
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:55 pm
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for some reason i thought thats what %word did, my bad
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