Re: Title Case

What I do is I have a "force" flag where you can specify whether or not you want to force olny the first letter to be capitalized and the rest lowercase, or else capitilize the first letter of each word and leave the rest as it is. Therefore titleCase("mcReary", false) will produce "McReary".

Re: Title Case

I have just uploaded an improved stack that filters out a list of reserved words: here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=30927 Best, Richmond. On 21/4/2018 5:10 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I have a stack with 2 fields: the first one "fRAW" contains my uncapitalised sentence,

Re: Title Case

Not sure what you mean? Also, definitely use one of the Andy versions to "case" your titles. Much more comprehensive solution. The only edge case I can see would be something like a title with a McGary type name, pretty much impossible to account for without looking up every word in a names DB.

Re: Title Case

I have a stack with 2 fields: the first one "fRAW" contains my uncapitalised sentence, the second one, "fCOOKED" is where the capitalised sentences ends up. I have a button called "SORT THINGS OUT" with this script: on mouseUp put empty into fld "fCOOKED" put fld "fRAW" into cRAW put

Re: Title Case

Hi Richmond, > Am 21.04.2018 um 15:52 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > : > > Just been playing with this and found that this causes problems: > > put "vanish" into rWORD > put char 1 of rWORD into rC > toUpper(rC) > > the toUpper(rC) throws a

Re: Title Case

Just been playing with this and found that this causes problems: put "vanish" into rWORD put char 1 of rWORD into rC toUpper(rC) the toUpper(rC) throws a "bluey" toUpper works with a string expressed "as itself" in double quotes, but does not seem to like a stringVariable . . . which is a

Re: Title Case

Mike/Andy that works; not sure how the eye-candy will to take to This Is A Title This is an obscure UI case in which I can't get metadata from the data base, for a given audio that has been downloaded. So these "titles" come file names in the "My Audio"

Re: Title Case

Or maybe put toupper(char 1 of tolower( trueword i of tTitle) ) into trueword i of tTitle or put toupper(char 1 of trueword i of tTitle) & \ tolower(char 2 to -1 of trueword i of tTitle) into trueword i of tTitle -- Alex. On 21/04/2018 04:54, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:

Re: Title Case

Something like this might work.. put "a create a sentence title" into tTitle repeat with i = 1 to the number of truewords in tTitle put toupper(char 1 of trueword i of tTitle) into char 1 of trueword i of tTitle end repeat put tTitle -- the adjusted case sentence If you have words that you

Title Case

What to the simplest way to "sentence case" a create a sentence title in use toUpper to convert to A Create A Sentence Title… BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage