Conditional Upper Case formatting

Hi there, I need to be able to format the first letter of a word upper case or lower case depending upon whether or not it appears at the start of a sentence. There must be a method of doing this using the String class. Any ideas folks? All contributions greatly appreciated!

It's a remarkably difficult problem to determine whether a sequence of chars constitutes a word, and what constitutes a sentence, especially considering that Java strings can be used to contain text in not only English but also Thai and Inuktitut and Coptic and all of the world's written languages. So perhaps it isn't all that surprising that the language designers didn't feel it necessary to solve that problem within the String class.
However if you have a more restrictive problem domain then perhaps you have an easier problem.

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Orton

Jari,
I have tried your option but no luck. The thing is the text is getting converted from lower to upper case when i navigate from report to form level. But I want to save the data to the database all upper case, even if the user enters data in lower case and this applies for both inserts and updates. Whenever i tried to create or update a record, all the data should be converted to upper case before inserting or updating to the database.
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from DAL reference book:
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"to upper case"-function in where condition

Hello all,
This code below meets my purpose, but I find it very "ugly":
* c1 is %
TRANSLATE NACHN TO UPPER CASE.
CONCATENATE c1 NACHN c1 into NACHN.
TRANSLATE VORNA TO UPPER CASE.
CONCATENATE c1 VORNA c1 into VORNA.
SELECT *
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF it0002
FROM PA0002.
   TRANSLATE it0002-nachn TO UPPER CASE.
   TRANSLATE it0002-vorna TO UPPER CASE.
    if it0002-nachn cp NACHN AND it0002-vorna cp vorna.
    endif.
ENDSELECT.
What I really want is to find something like this:
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FROM PA0002.
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The code above doesn't work (you cannot use "upper" on the table pa0002 fields)
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Hi,
You can write your code in below way.
TRANSLATE NACHN TO UPPER CASE.
CONCATENATE c1 NACHN c1 into NACHN.
TRANSLATE VORNA TO UPPER CASE.
CONCATENATE c1 VORNA c1 into VORNA.
SELECT *
INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF it0002
FROM PA0002.
WHERE nachn like NACHN
AND      vorna   like VORNA.
ENDSELECT.
Hope this may help.
Regards,
Sravanthi

How to cast a fieldinput value to upper case.

Im not a java programer I guess that this must be a silly thing.
Im searching data in R/3 from 2 fields 1 numeric and the other alphanumeric. This alphanumeric fields if I put it in upper case works, if I wirte it in lower case doesnt works.
In R/3 when I test the FM doesnt matter if I put it lower or upper case, it works fine.
so I wanna know how can I in WD cast the value that I put in that fieldinput be converted to upper case when I hit the search button.
Thx

> Im not a java programer I guess that this must be a
> silly thing.
>
> Im searching data in R/3 from 2 fields 1 numeric and
> the other alphanumeric. This alphanumeric fields if I
> put it in upper case works, if I wirte it in lower
> case doesnt works.
>
> In R/3 when I test the FM doesnt matter if I put it
> lower or upper case, it works fine.
>
> so I wanna know how can I in WD cast the value that I
> put in that fieldinput be converted to upper case
> when I hit the search button.
>
> Thx
Hi,
When you test the FM in SE37 in R3 there is an option at the top of the screen Called Uppercase/Lowercase - this controls whether the input is automatically converted to upper case for alphanumeric fields.
The other option you have, if it is a custom FM, is to translate the input of the alphanumeric fields in the ABAP - it is quite common to have to translate or convert input data to make sure it is in the same format as the backend system.
I prefer to do this sort of conversion on the backend system as usually you have a better guarentee that it will be in the correct format, than if you do it in the Java element.
Just my opinion,
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JDBC send data to oracle, oracle only accept column name in Upper case

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<i>can anyone help me to let oracle accpet column "name"</i>
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How to CHECK WHETHER LOWER CASE OR UPPER CASE IN CUSTOM TABLE

Dear Friends,
                 I have a requirement where from the flat file i have collected into the internal table is as below :
IDNo.     Name     Date      Location   Designation Dept
101       raja      4/12/2007 Delhi      manager      HR
102       james    4/12/2007 Delhi      clerk          HR
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now iam facing a problem where is the flat file is always having the Lower Case only ,
as per the scenario if my custom table already have the employee name i shouldnt modify/update i.e i shouldnt overwrite,
this scenario is working but it is failing in the case
by chance in the Custom table the employee name or designation is in Upper Case the condition where iam checking in the code is failing as the flat file data coming into the internal table is having always lower Case.
So could any one please let me know how i should check in my custom table whether iam having upper case or lower case and how can i make it lower case ?
because iam able to manage in the case where if the flat file data coming in Upper case i can check before only by
using Translate to lower case . how i unalbe to check for the data coming from the Custom table if in Uppercase , so i want to change that to lower case then checking my condition whether that data already exists in my custom table before modifying the data coming from the flat .
because the condition is failing when the data in the custom table is in upper case and the Flat file data is in lower case.
please help how i can check for the data in the Custom table is in upper case and then change it to lower case.
Regards
Madhuri.

Hi Madhuri,
Translate both data in your flat file & custom table to lowercase before comparing them. With that, you're able to identify if there's a differences in for both data.
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Happy doing !!..
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How do I make my text field in a form automatically upper case?

Use the following as the text field's custom Keystroke JavaScript (choose a Format type of Custom):
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Zero Fill and Upper Case in Visual Composer not working

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Hi ALex,
Now I got your problem. I suggest a solution for it.
Go to the design board of VC.
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Translate search parameters to lower and upper case

Hi All,
I need to create a search function. Is it possible to translate the search paramaters to both upper and lower case because inside the data there are data with upper case or lower case or both.
Thanks in advance.

Hi ,
As per your requirement you have to write logic for three conditions :
1. Translate whole word into upper case .
TRANSLATE your field name TO UPPERCASE.
2. Translate whole word into lower case .
TRANSLATE your field name TO LOWERCASE.
3. First character of your field should be in uppercase rest in lower case .
so write your logic now considering third point also .
Regards ,
Nilesh Jain .

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Thanks,
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Hi Aravind,
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How can I define that the value of a column should always be in UPPER case

Hi,
I want to make sure that the value in a column is always in UPPER case.
Can we give this condition while creating or altering a table.
A trigger can do it easily, but I was wondering if we could define a column to have values with upper case all the time, independent of what values are inserted. I mean if we give a lower case value in the insert statement, it should be converted automatically to upper case & stored.
I want something like
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The system remembers your settings and will keep the text the same format in future.

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