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How to change THIS to This?
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05/01/2007 10:37:18
 
 
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05/01/2007 09:16:07
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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Thread ID:
01182553
Message ID:
01182798
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>>>>>>I am talking about a generic function that will work on any string.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ok, well the PROPER approach by Naomi might works. But, this is generic. So, you will probably want to adjust accordingly and may end up using a function of your own.
>>>>
>>>>I probably didn't explain myself well. PROPER will do exactly what I am looking for. So I won't have to create my own function.
>>>
>>>PROPER() will not correctly handle "MCDONALD'S"
>>
>>There IS no standard: McDonald, Mcdonald are botrh common, so it would be impossible to set a rule.
>
>I've only seen Mcdonald come from crappy computer systems :)

Check out your phone directory. I remember actually doing a u/t for a co. I used to work for, in assembler, to go with the cobol system, cos all the surnames were boring capitals. After much searching I decided it just can't be done. Also O'donald vs O'Donald, d'Arcy and d'Artagnon (can't be predicted).
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
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