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Re: st: RE: string function "Sentence case"


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: string function "Sentence case"
Date   Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:07:36 -0500

 regexr(<string>, word(<string>,1) ,proper(word(<string>,1)) )

Scott

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> You don't need one (much).
>
> upper(substr(<string>,1,1)) + substr(<string>,2,.)
>
> Andrea Bennett
>
> Is there a string function to change a string to sentence case? E.g
> "foreign labor integration" --> "Foreign labor integration"
>
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