Re: [Capitalize]

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 17427
interpreted = N
texte = >[Capitalize] gives me:>> The P.c.s. (pacific Coast Software) Web-site> said hello, World>>When what I really want is:>> The P.C.S. (Pacific Coast Software) Web-Site> Said Hello, World>>>[Capitalize] can be good for some quick-and dirty formatting, but would be>much more useful if it capitalized not just after spaces, but also after>quotes (single and double), hyphens, parenthesis, periods, commas, brackets>(curly, square, and angle), tabs, line breaks, slashes, apersands,>asterisks, etc.Please, don't get me started on this [capitalize] issue ...I've been asking for (and hoping for and waiting for) a string replacement function for more than a year now. A string replacement function is obviously far more powerful and universally useful than capitalizing some text that the typist could very easily have typed properly in the first place -- yet WebCatalog still doesn't offer any string replacement capabilities.But instead, during the past year PCS has given us [capitalize] ... and a slightly more useful [convertchars], both of which have limited applications but neither of which do what I need.It seems that if PCS would consider expanding the new [convertchars] to something a bit more useful, perhaps something like [convertString] which would replace any number of contiguous characters with a different string of characters, then I might actually have the tools I need in order to offer my clients what they keep asking for ...A year ago was the first time someone asked me about this capability. That (lost) client wanted a dirty word screening solution. He simply wanted WebCat to get rid of any profane language posted by the users of his message board system *before* those bad words or phrases got displayed. But it could not be done in WebCatalog a year ago, and it still cannot be done today.Instead, I can now use [convertchars] to replace all his u's with e's, which will change That's a bunch of bullshit into That's a bench of bellshit. But that just doesn't cut it when what the client expects is:That's a bunch of *DIRTY WORD DELETED*Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: [capitalize] ( Patrick McCormick 2005)
Re: [capitalize] ( Brian Fries 2005)
Re: [capitalize] ( Patrick McCormick 2005)
Re: [capitalize] ( Stuart Tremain 2005)
[capitalize] ( Patrick McCormick 2005)
Minor Bug(?) with [Capitalize] context ( 1999)
Re: [Capitalize] (Dave MacLeay 1998)
Re: [Capitalize] (Kenneth Grome 1998)
[Capitalize] (Dave MacLeay 1998)
[capitalize] ( Capi)

>[capitalize] gives me:>> The P.c.s. (pacific Coast Software) Web-site> said hello, World>>When what I really want is:>> The P.C.S. (Pacific Coast Software) Web-Site> Said Hello, World>>>[capitalize] can be good for some quick-and dirty formatting, but would be>much more useful if it capitalized not just after spaces, but also after>quotes (single and double), hyphens, parenthesis, periods, commas, brackets>(curly, square, and angle), tabs, line breaks, slashes, apersands,>asterisks, etc.Please, don't get me started on this [capitalize] issue ...I've been asking for (and hoping for and waiting for) a string replacement function for more than a year now. A string replacement function is obviously far more powerful and universally useful than capitalizing some text that the typist could very easily have typed properly in the first place -- yet WebCatalog still doesn't offer any string replacement capabilities.But instead, during the past year PCS has given us [capitalize] ... and a slightly more useful [convertchars], both of which have limited applications but neither of which do what I need.It seems that if PCS would consider expanding the new [convertchars] to something a bit more useful, perhaps something like [convertString] which would replace any number of contiguous characters with a different string of characters, then I might actually have the tools I need in order to offer my clients what they keep asking for ...A year ago was the first time someone asked me about this capability. That (lost) client wanted a dirty word screening solution. He simply wanted WebCat to get rid of any profane language posted by the users of his message board system *before* those bad words or phrases got displayed. But it could not be done in WebCatalog a year ago, and it still cannot be done today.Instead, I can now use [convertchars] to replace all his u's with e's, which will change That's a bunch of bullshit into That's a bench of bellshit. But that just doesn't cut it when what the client expects is:That's a bunch of *DIRTY WORD DELETED*Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net Kenneth Grome

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Re: [Capitalize]

1998

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