Reginald: How to make a string lower case?This is a discussion on Reginald: How to make a string lower case? within the REXX forums in Programming Languages category; On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:10 +0100, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Swift @ gmail.com> wrote: >Snotty Wafflelips wrote: > >> Doing it with changestr would require looping through each of the 26 >> letters. > >And if we want to go off into endless debate, we can consider letters >such as Ü. Even us dyed-in-the-wool British come across accented >characters from time to time, and they defeat the simple forms of >TRANSLATE(). I'm not smart enough, but someone ought to be able to write a generalized CHANGECASE function that could do upper, lower, and mixed (like Shigt-F3 in Word) and have other ... | ||||||||
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08-27-2008, 11:48 AM
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 Re: Reginald: How to make a string lower case? On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:10 +0100, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote: >Snotty Wafflelips wrote: > >> Doing it with changestr would require looping through each of the 26 >> letters. > >And if we want to go off into endless debate, we can consider letters >such as Ü. Even us dyed-in-the-wool British come across accented >characters from time to time, and they defeat the simple forms of >TRANSLATE(). I'm not smart enough, but someone ought to be able to write a generalized CHANGECASE function that could do upper, lower, and mixed (like Shigt-F3 in Word) and have other optional parameters for extended character sets.  |
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08-27-2008, 09:05 PM
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| Re: Reginald: How to make a string lower case? Snotty Wafflelips wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:10 +0100, Steve Swift > <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>Snotty Wafflelips wrote: >> >> >>>Doing it with changestr would require looping through each of the 26 >>>letters. >> >>And if we want to go off into endless debate, we can consider letters >>such as Ü. Even us dyed-in-the-wool British come across accented >>characters from time to time, and they defeat the simple forms of >>TRANSLATE(). > > > I'm not smart enough, but someone ought to be able to write a > generalized CHANGECASE function that could do upper, lower, and mixed > (like Shigt-F3 in Word) and have other optional parameters for > extended character sets. P.S. "snotty wafflelips" is sorta...repugnant sounding -- Gary Scott mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net Fortran Library: http://www.fortranlib.com Support the Original G95 Project: http://www.g95.org -OR- Support the GNU GFortran Project: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/index.html If you want to do the impossible, don't hire an expert because he knows it can't be done. -- Henry Ford |
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08-27-2008, 11:36 PM
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| Re: Reginald: How to make a string lower case? On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:05:52 -0500, Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >Snotty Wafflelips wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:10 +0100, Steve Swift >> <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>>Snotty Wafflelips wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Doing it with changestr would require looping through each of the 26 >>>>letters. >>> >>>And if we want to go off into endless debate, we can consider letters >>>such as Ü. Even us dyed-in-the-wool British come across accented >>>characters from time to time, and they defeat the simple forms of >>>TRANSLATE(). >> >> >> I'm not smart enough, but someone ought to be able to write a >> generalized CHANGECASE function that could do upper, lower, and mixed >> (like Shigt-F3 in Word) and have other optional parameters for >> extended character sets. >P.S. "snotty wafflelips" is sorta...repugnant sounding Well, yes, it is. That was the point. Professor Pippy P. Poppypants* was kinda annoyed, so he made everyone assume silly names. This is mine. Sorry you don't like it. ;-) * See *Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants*, by Dav Pilkey |
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