ucfirst

[Kimmo Laine]

I have abunch of names that I'd like to normalize case-wise. Some are
lowercase (joe jackson), some uppercase (JOE JACKSON), and some correctly
cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolower('JOE JACKSON')); works for most
cases, but if there's a name with a hyphen, ie. BILLY-BOB JOHNSON and
jack-bob johnson and Bob-Bob Johnson, they're turned into Billy-bob etc...
The letter after the hyphen should be uppercased as well, not just the ones
after space. Anyone got idea how to do this?

(Then there are names like McGyver or MacCartney and O'Reilly... But that's
okay, we have so few of this kind of names in Finland it doesn't matter.)

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[BLob]

I have abunch of names that I'd like to normalize case-wise. Some are

lowercase (joe jackson), some uppercase (JOE JACKSON), and some correctly
cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolower('JOE JACKSON')); works for most
cases, but if there's a name with a hyphen, ie. BILLY-BOB JOHNSON and
jack-bob johnson and Bob-Bob Johnson, they're turned into Billy-bob etc...

Lucky you if "your" names do not have accents signs (meaning é, è, ê and
others) ! Otherwise your method wouldn't work, as it would transform
"STEPHANE" into "Stephane" ("STEPHANE" is correct because capital letters do
not take accents, whereas "Stephane" should be written "Stéphane").

The letter after the hyphen should be uppercased as well, not just the

ones

after space. Anyone got idea how to do this?

A dirty trick :
Replace "-" by "- ".
Then do your ucfirst(strtolower($name));
Them replace back "- " by "-".
That should do it !
BLob

[Kimmo Laine]

"BLob" <bl**@nospam.invalidwrote in message
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>I have abunch of names that I'd like to normalize case-wise. Some are
lowercase (joe jackson), some uppercase (JOE JACKSON), and some correctly
cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolower('JOE JACKSON')); works for most
cases, but if there's a name with a hyphen, ie. BILLY-BOB JOHNSON and
jack-bob johnson and Bob-Bob Johnson, they're turned into Billy-bob
etc...

Lucky you if "your" names do not have accents signs (meaning é, è, ê and
others) ! Otherwise your method wouldn't work, as it would transform
"STEPHANE" into "Stephane" ("STEPHANE" is correct because capital letters
do
not take accents, whereas "Stephane" should be written "Stéphane").

>The letter after the hyphen should be uppercased as well, not just the

ones

>after space. Anyone got idea how to do this?

A dirty trick :
Replace "-" by "- ".
Then do your ucfirst(strtolower($name));
Them replace back "- " by "-".
That should do it !

Oh, I never thought of that. How silly, of course that'll work. Good ol'
dirty hacks. :)

Thanks BLob

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[Kimmo Laine]

"Kimmo Laine" <sp**@outolempi.netwrote in message
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cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolower('JOE JACKSON')); works for most

Whoops... Obviously that was supposed to be ucwords :)

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