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Adept Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 246

Is there a function similar to proper that capitalizes the first letter of each word? I typically use notation like this when displaying names of things. i.e. the dragon tooth inn would be The Dragon Tooth Inn ?
If not, any chance it could be added as a function in a future version? Thanks for looking

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:35 pm

There's no specific function, but you could use %proper on each word individually like

#VAR NewString ""
#LOOP 1 %numwords(@String) {NewString=%concat(@NewString," ",%proper(%word(@String,%i)))}

or you could try using a %subregex

#VAR NewString %subregex(@String, " [a-z]"," %upper(%1)");

The code is untested but should give you a general idea. The subregex searches for any letter with a space before it and capitalizes it.

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:42 pm

The subregex idea is a good one, but you need to have the %upper function outside quotes and use %pat instead of %nn. The range needs to be captured, too. In the couple of minutes of experimentation I did, I couldn't get it to replace all the characters correctly, either - it'd always replace all the matches with the last one, giving you "the Iragon Iooth Inn". That regex also won't capture the beginning of the string - it'd be better to use \b. But you get the idea.

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:26 pm

You're right. I forgot I was doing CMUD for this one. :)

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

#var NewString %subregex(%lower(@String),"\b(\w)(\w*?)\b","%upper(%pat(1))%pat(2)")