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Thanks guys
CapsFirstTitle() from CFLib seems to be working out well for me... a
couple of minor tweaks but otherwise great
On 11/22/06, Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I've done a very simple implementation of this before - I use CSS. UCASE
the variable then text-transform: capitalize.
On 22/11/06, RichL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >- see footer for list info -<
> Thanks for the input guys... regex is a good candidate... my regex is
> pretty rusty
>
>
> The CapFirstTitle() code looks interesting and also has a list of
> words to not capitalise:
>
> <cfscript>
>
> function capFirstTitle(initText){
>
> var Words = "";
> var j = 1; var m = 1;
> var doCap = "";
> var thisWord = "";
> var excludeWords = ArrayNew(1);
> var outputString = "";
>
> initText = LCASE(initText);
>
> //Words to never capitalize
> excludeWords[1] = "an";
> excludeWords[2] = "the";
> excludeWords[3] = "at";
> excludeWords[4] = "by";
> excludeWords[5] = "for";
> excludeWords[6] = "of";
> excludeWords[7] = "in";
> excludeWords[8] = "up";
> excludeWords[9] = "on";
> excludeWords[10] = "to";
> excludeWords[11] = "and";
> excludeWords[12] = "as";
> excludeWords[13] = "but";
> excludeWords[14] = "if";
> excludeWords[15] = "or";
> excludeWords[16] = "nor";
> excludeWords[17] = "a";
>
> //Make each word in text an array variable
>
> Words = ListToArray(initText, " ");
>
> //Check words against exclude list
> for(j=1; j LTE (ArrayLen(Words)); j = j+1){
> doCap = true;
>
> //Word must be less that four characters to be in the list
> of excluded words
> if(LEN(Words[j]) LT 4 ){
>
> if(ListFind(ArrayToList(excludeWords,","),Words[j])){
> doCap = false;
> }
> }
>
> //Capitalize hyphenated words
> if(ListLen(Words[j],"-") GT 1){
> for(m=2; m LTE ListLen(Words[j], "-"); m=m+1){
> thisWord = ListGetAt(Words[j], m, "-");
> thisWord = UCase(Mid(thisWord,1, 1)) &
> Mid(thisWord,2, LEN(thisWord)-1);
> Words[j] = ListSetAt(Words[j], m,
> thisWord, "-");
> }
> }
>
> //Automatically capitalize first and last words
> if(j eq 1 or j eq ArrayLen(Words)){
> doCap = true;
> }
>
> //Capitalize qualifying words
> if(doCap){
> Words[j] = UCase(Mid(Words[j],1, 1)) &
> Mid(Words[j],2, LEN(Words[j])-1);
> }
> }
>
> outputString = ArrayToList(Words, " ");
>
> return outputString;
>
> }
> </cfscript>
>
> I'll have a play with this and also the regexes
>
> Thanks very much guys
>
> On 11/22/06, Peter Boughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Ah, I nearly had it. Ish. Didn't think the \U and \L stuff worked with
> > CF, but it apparently does. That's good to know. :)
> >
> > A slight modification though:
> > test2 = reReplace(test, "(\b\w)(\w*)\b", "\u\1\L\2","ALL");
> >
> > ( \u[char] is equivalent to \U[char]\E )
> >
> >
> > On 11/22/06, Simon Baynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >- see footer for list info -<
> > > Use RegEx, looping trhough a list of words is ludicrous:-
> > >
> > >
> > > <cfscript>
> > > test = "VIRGIN ISLANDS";
> > >
> > > test2 = reReplace(test, "(\b\w)(\w*)\b", "\U\1\E\L\2","ALL");
> > > </cfscript>
> > > <cfoutput>#test2#</cfoutput>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 11/22/06, RichL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > > I have just found CapFirstTitle on CFLib which looks interesting
> > > >
> > > > On 11/22/06, Damien Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > >- see footer for list info -<
> > > > > I think there's a UDF to do just this on Ray Camden's site...
> > > > >
> > > > > RichL wrote:
> > > > > >> - see footer for list info -<
> > > > > > Hi Guys
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have a country reference table where all of the country names
> are
> > > > > > held in upper case.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I want to be able to output in lower case but keep the caps
> where
> > > > > > appropriate (e.g. UNITED KINGDOM to United Kingdom).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > However I think that this going to be close to impossible as
> there are
> > > > > > values such as:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > VIRGIN ISLANDS (BRITISH)
> > > > > > VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.)
> > > > > > WALLIS AND FUTANA
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So using a function to capitalise the first letter of each word
> won't
> > > > > > really work.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > How have people approached this situation and has anybody found
> any
> > > > > > good solution?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, is there a UDF around for capitalising the first letter of
> each
> > > > > > word?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks in advance
> > > > > >
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