Function to Upper and Lower Case sentences

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Wed Dec 21 17:10:05 EST 2011


(Me too!)

On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Pete wrote:

> Or a close paren?  Seems like modern English usage is to put the period
> before the close paren at the end of a sentence (although I personally hate
> that).
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:30 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 12/21/11 3:02 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>> 
>>> OK yes, Title case is easy... It's sentence case I was looking for
>>> because a period/dot is not part of a word. I guess one could use a dot
>>> as a line delimiter and then step thru the lines.
>>> 
>> 
>> Seems like there should be some kind of fancy regex to do this, something
>> that looks for space-period-character and capitalizes the character part.
>> Maybe one of our regex gurus knows how.
>> 
>> I think your lines solution could work too. You might have to make a more
>> than one pass if you think there will be question marks or exclamation
>> points at line endings.
>> 
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