Yep, I agree.  Thanks for the feedback.

-----Original Message-----
From: George Sexton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:41 PM
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Subject: RE: Capitalizing names OT


If you are doing proper names, it's a lot harder than that. Some issues with
names are:

The Mac names

McNeil, McKendry, and the other variants that are Mac.

Names that contain an apostrophe

O'Hara, O'Neil

Then you have Generational qualifiers,

III, IV, V


George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
http://www.mhsoftware.com/
Voice: 303 438 9585


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Short [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 3:29 PM
> To: Tomcat Users Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Capitalizing names OT
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> Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to the Oracle
> Initcap() function?
> I am trying to write a database independent name
> capitalization routine.
>
>
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