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ColdFusion: Proper Case Function?

Hi,
I was wondering if someone could point me to a solid UDF, UDT or CFC that takes a string of "words" and converts them into proper "title case". This is where
- the first letter of each word is uppercase
- rest of each word is lower case
- does not capitalize words that are prepositions, articles (you know - the small connector words)
- Handles some common abbreviations?

You know what I mean (I hope).

Thanks in advance,
hefterr

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Coast Line

try these Below, The One already told by agx

http://cflib.org/udf/CapFirst

http://cflib.org/udf/capFirstList

http://cflib.org/udf/celticMcCaps

http://cflib.org/udf/UCaseAll

hefterr

ASKER

The CapFirstTitle is close to what I am looking for. Just one more related question. How does one test a string in CF to see if the alphabetic characters are all upper case? It's related because I beleive this is why my boss wants to use this function.

Coast Line

like this:

<cfif str neq ucase(str)>
Incorrect
<cfelse>
Correct
</cfif>

_agx_

> <cfif str neq ucase(str)>

Not quite. NEQ is case *insensitive*

You can either use a regex or compare() the string to the upper case version (compare is case sensitive)

<cfif compare( someString, ucase(someString)) eq 0>
all upper case
<cfelse>
NOT all upper case
</cfif>

hefterr

ASKER

Thanks for your help.

Coast Line

but agx, NEQ will work, Can you explain me better why?

_agx_

Nope, it won't. NEQ doesn't care about case so it treats "apple" and "APPLE" the same.