Josh
Tue Jun 26 13:55:05 CDT 2007
That doesn't take into account many other factors
"this is a test of a paragraph. I wonder how it will work. <CR/LF>
this would be skipped. as would this, since there were two spaces"
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:28:01 +0200, "Anders Altberg" <anders.altberg> wrote:
>s= ' this is a tst. and this is another. i want to change the first letter
>of each sentence to uppercase'
>s = LOWER(s)
>s = UPPER(LEFT(LTRIM(s),1))+SUBSTR(LTRIM(s),2)
>FOR i = ASC('a') TO ASC('z')
>s= STRTRAN(s,'. '+CHR(i),'. '+CHR(i-32))
>NEXT
>? s
>s= ' this is a test. and this is another. i want to change the first letter
>of each sentence to uppercase'
>s= LOWER(s)
>s2=PROPER(GETWORDNUM(s,1))+SPACE(1)
>FOR i = 2 TO GETWORDCOUNT(s)
>w1=GETWORDNUM(s,i-1)
>w2=GETWORDNUM(s,i)
>s2=s2+IIF(RIGHT(w1,1)='.',PROPER(w2)+SPACE(1),w2+SPACE(1))
>NEXT
>? s2
>
>-Anders
>
>
>"Zoom" <keashdoc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:xu2dnVN7Qr01vhzbnZ2dnUVZ_tWhnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>I simply want the first word in the beginning of the text and after any
>>periods to be capitalized. The rest should all be lowercase.
>>
>> Zoom
>>
>>
>> "Roger Ansell" <notmy@realemailaddress.net> wrote in message
>> news:%23ma1B0$tHHA.3796@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>> "Zoom" <keashdoc@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any VFP function or a subroutine that will properly format a
>>>> sentence ie. Only capitalizing the first words in a sentence. The
>>>> PROPER() function seems to capitalize all the words in a sentence.
>>>
>>> What's your definition of a sentence?
>>> Think about it.
>>>
>>> -Roger
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>