testing on case

Lynch, Jonathan BNZ2 at CDC.GOV
Thu Dec 9 15:29:35 EST 2004


This should work on the whole string:

   Set the casesensitive to true
   If x = toupper(x) then...

That would work even if some characters are numbers, and thus not in the
a-z set, but still not considered uppercase


For a single character you can do

   if chartonum(x) = chartonum(toupper(x)) then...

-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Hershel
Fisch
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:49 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: testing on case

on the first letter , but good to know-'em both ways.
Thanks,Hershel
On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, at 05:24 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> Are you trying to test the first letter only, or the entire string?  
> The proposals so far only test the first character of the string.  If 
> you need the whole thing to be uppercase:
>
> function uppercase ofText
>   set the caseSensitive to true
>   repeat for each char ch in "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
>     if ch is among the chars of ofText then return false
>   end repeat
>   return true
> end uppercase
>
>
> Now you can do things like:
>
> if uppercase(ofText) then
>   -- whatever
> end if
>
>
> or to test the first char of each word:
>
> function wordcase ofText
>   set the caseSensitive to true
>   repeat for each word w in ofText
>     if char 1 of w is among the chars of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" 
> then return false
>   end repeat
>   return true
> end wordcase
>
>
> and similarly,
>
> if wordcase(ofText) then
>   -- do something
> end if
>
> On Dec 8, 2004, at 4:55 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>>
>>> If you must avoid a function (sniff, I like functions), then 
>>> consider this:
>>>
>>> if matchText( param(x), "^[A-Z]") then put xxx else put x
>>
>> or this (if useUnicode is not true and you know it starts with a 
>> letter)
>>
>> if charToNum( param(x) ) < 97 then put xxx else put x
>>
>> To me a function is more readable.  Are you concerned about speed?
>>
>> Dar
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