I have some data that is all uppercase that I want to convert to Title Case (Where the 1st letter of each word is capitalized). I would also like to automatically convert string input in name fields to title case when a record is saved in a BO.
I have run across some Javascript, Java, and Regex code that does what I am wanting (At least I think it does) but have no clue how to either include that in a Process or in a Rule.
Here is an example of what someone came up with using Regex:
Pattern spaces=Pattern.compile("\s+[a-z]");
Matcher m=spaces.matcher(word);
StringBuilder capitalWordBuilder=new StringBuilder(word.substring(0,1).toUpperCase());
int prevStart=1;
while(m.find()) {
capitalWordBuilder.append(word.substring(prevStart,m.end()-1));
capitalWordBuilder.append(word.substring(m.end()-1,m.end()).toUpperCase());
prevStart=m.end();
}
capitalWordBuilder.append(word.substring(prevStart,word.length()));
Here is an example of some Java Code (This one preserves defined acronyms as uppercase and minor words as lowercase, which would be really nice) :
import java.util.Scanner;
public class CapitolizeOneString {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print(" Please enter Your word = ");
String str=scan.nextLine();
printCapitalized( str );
} // end main()
static void printCapitalized( String str ) {
// Print a copy of str to standard output, with the
// first letter of each word in upper case.
char ch; // One of the characters in str.
char prevCh; // The character that comes before ch in the string.
int i; // A position in str, from 0 to str.length()-1.
prevCh = '.'; // Prime the loop with any non-letter character.
for ( i = 0; i < str.length(); i++ ) {
ch = str.charAt(i);
if ( Character.isLetter(ch) && ! Character.isLetter(prevCh) )
System.out.print( Character.toUpperCase(ch) );
else
System.out.print( ch );
prevCh = ch; // prevCh for next iteration is ch.
}
System.out.println();
}
} // end class
And here is some Javascript:
String.prototype.toTitleCase = function() {
var i, j, str, lowers, uppers;
str = this.replace(/([\W_]+[\s-]*) */g, function(txt) {
return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();
});
// Certain minor words should be left lowercase unless
// they are the first or last words in the string
lowers = ['A', 'An', 'The', 'And', 'But', 'Or', 'For', 'Nor', 'As', 'At',
'By', 'For', 'From', 'In', 'Into', 'Near', 'Of', 'On', 'Onto', 'To', 'With'];
for (i = 0, j = lowers.length; i < j; i++)
str = str.replace(new RegExp('\s' + lowers + '\s', 'g'),
function(txt) {
return txt.toLowerCase();
});
// Certain words such as initialisms or acronyms should be left uppercase
uppers = ['Id', 'Tv'];
for (i = 0, j = uppers.length; i < j; i++)
str = str.replace(new RegExp('\b' + uppers + '\b', 'g'),
uppers.toUpperCase());
return str;
}
Can someone point me in the right direction for using these?
Thanks,
Jim
