RE: Proper() not capitalizing Names with special characters

Chris — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:27:45 GMT

As another option with OOTB functions, you can create your own expression rule that determines which characters should be translated to upper case. In this example, we maintain a list of characters that determine that the following character should be upper case (space, dash, apostrophe, etc).

a!localVariables(
  local!chars: {"'"," ","-"}, /* Any leading char that determins upper next */
  local!capIndex: reject(
    fn!isnull,
    a!forEach(
      items: 1+enumerate(len(ri!string)),
      expression: if(
        or(
          fv!isFirst,
          contains(local!chars,charat(ri!string,fv!index))
        ),
        if(fv!isFirst,1,fv!index+1),
        null
      )
    )
  ),
  
  concat(
    a!forEach(
      items: 1+enumerate(len(ri!string)),
      expression: if(
        contains(local!capIndex,fv!index),
        upper(charat(ri!string,fv!index)),
        charat(ri!string,fv!index)
      )
    )
  )
)

RE: Proper() not capitalizing Names with special characters

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:55:07 GMT

Maybe this works for you.

I use a regex to find all first characters at word boundaries. The function returns the start and end positions of the matches. Then I increase the start positions by one as it is zero based.

I then use reduce() to iterate on the list of start positions to replace that character by its upper case version.

Any better version is welcome.

a!localVariables(
  local!texts: {"o'neal", "aube-kubel"},
  a!forEach(
    items: local!texts,
    expression: reduce(
      rule!SSH_Upper(_,_),
      fv!item,
      tointeger(regexsearch("(\b[a-zA-Z](?!\s))", fv!item, "gms", false).startPosition) + 1
    )
  )
)

My helper expression:

fn!replace(ri!string, ri!index, 1, upper(ri!string[ri!index]))