Making the first letter of every word a capital

hello CF oracles
could you guys please advise me the best way to make the
first letter in every word of a string a capital letter. (and make
all the other letters lower case).
eg. convert "the quick brown fox" into "The Quick Brown Fox"
or convert "THE QUICK BROWN FOX" into "The Quick Brown Fox"
I am taking form data and inserting it into my table, so i
want to get it right as the data is inserted.
i found a "UDF" on CFLIb.org that proports to do this, but i
don't know how to set up a UDF, are there other ways or is this
considered the best approach.
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?id=9&enable=1
thanks for any help you can give me

found it, here's the top info, Titlecase is what you want for
this.:
changecase.cfm
Rev 1.01
cf_changecase is a simple custom tag to format case in given
string.
(c) 2001, Rizal Firmansyah, [email protected]
Input var:
* case (mandatory)
possible inputs are
- sentencecase: Sentence case (default)
- titlecase: Title Case
- lowercase: lowercase
- uppercase: UPPER CASE
"happysailingdude" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:e46tjv$e30$[email protected]..
> hi Dan thanks very much. I have made an executive
decision to do a bit of
> a
> hack for now as my site is only small so if a user
enters something in the
> wrong way i can quickly manually update it myself.
>
> so now i have this which works 9 times out of ten if the
user enters a one
> word name eg "bill" or "fred" of "jane" then it works
just fine
>
> the only time it doesnt work is if the user's name is
more than 1 word (or
> is
> hyphenated) eg "mary anne" or "anne-marie" hence the
first cfif line - in
> these
> cases i can manually update
>
> i put this here in case it is of use to anyone else
>
> cheers
>
> <cfif not (FORM.firstName contains " " or
FORM.firstname contains "-")>
> '#Left( UCase( "#FORM.firstName#" ), 1 )##Right( LCase(
> "#FORM.firstName#" ), Len("#FORM.firstName#" ) - 1 )#'
> <cfelse>
> '#FORM.firstName#'
> </cfif>
>

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cf_dev2 wrote:
> One way is using string functions. Left() to grab the
first letter and
> UCase() to capitalize it. You can use Right() and Len()
to grab the rest of
> the word.
>
> You can see an example of something similar at
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> on how it operates if you pass multiple words.
>
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>
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