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.
On 12/21/11 10:57 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
I have a need to take all caps input and
1) Lower case all but first letter of sentences
2) Upper case words in a small dictionary I will provide to the function.
As anyone cooked up something like this already... if I just had 1) can manage
2)
Happy Holidays!
Om Shanti
Sivakatirswami
Kauai Aadheenam
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function titleCase theText, forceIt
if forceIt is true then
put tolower(theText) into theText
end if
repeat with theWordNum = 1 to the number of words of theText
put toupper(char 1 of word theWordNum of theText)& \
char 2 to -1 of word theWordNum of theText \
into word theWordNum of theText
end repeat
return theText
end titleCase
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