Character Case Functions

Alpha Five provides the following character functions.

Function

 

Description

CASE_PRESERVE()

V5

Encodes an input string so that its capitalization can be restored.

CASE_RESTORE()

V5

Returns the original character string encoded by CASE_PRESERVE() to its initial pattern of upper and lower case characters.

F_UPPER()

V5

Capitalizes the first letter in an Input_String.

LOWER()

V5

Converts an Input_String to lowercase.

LT()

V6

Converts an Input_String to lowercase.

NF_LOWER()

V5

Leaves the case of the first character of Input_String unchanged, and converts the rest of Input_String to lower case.

NW_LOWER()

V5

Leaves the case of the first character of each word in Input_String unchanged, and converts the rest of Input_String to lower case.

UPPER()

V5

Converts an Input_String to uppercase.

UT()

V5

Converts an Input_String to uppercase and removes trailing blanks.

W_UPPER()

V5

Capitalizes the first character of each word in an Input_String.

WUT()

V5

Capitalizes the first character of each word in an Input_String.

See Also

Character Functions