Variables to UPPERCASE?

I have a variable defined in my book chapters that contain the chapter title. E.g.,
Variable name: Chapter Title
Variable value: In the Beginning
I use this variable on the first page of each chapter, naturally.
I would also like to have a Right page header, that also displays the chapter title, as is commonly found in most non-fiction books. But typically (if not always), this page header is in uppercase letters. Although I could create a new variable for each chapter, and call the variable something like "Chapter Title in Uppercase Letters", this seems rather redundant, if not to mention dumb...IF...there is some trick to have Framemaker 9 uppercase the propercase version of the original variable. Something like $Uppercase('Chapter Title')
Is this possible in FM9?
Thanks.
PK

Sam State wrote:
I have a variable defined in my book chapters that contain the chapter title. E.g.,
Variable name: Chapter Title
Variable value: In the Beginning
I use this variable on the first page of each chapter, naturally.
I would also like to have a Right page header, that also displays the chapter title, as is commonly found in most non-fiction books. But typically (if not always), this page header is in uppercase letters. Although I could create a new variable for each chapter, and call the variable something like "Chapter Title in Uppercase Letters", this seems rather redundant, if not to mention dumb...IF...there is some trick to have Framemaker 9 uppercase the propercase version of the original variable. Something like $Uppercase('Chapter Title')
Is this possible in FM9?
Thanks.
PK
Search Google for terms like "FrameMaker uppercase character style," without quotes.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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> Doing a form which I want to validate, then re-display
with error messages and
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go onto a second form
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OK, quite common.
> I have tried to use <form
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print " instead
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configuration.
>but as the
>various outcomes result in different screens I can't see
how to do it without
>having reams of duplicate code - I couldn't make it work
satisfactorily anyway.
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or a
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> So I decided to do it in two stages - form (user screen)
+ a separate
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if there are errors by
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> But I'm struggling with this .. two questions:
>
> i) Ideally I would like to use a session variable to
pass actual error
>messages back to screen one in the event of errors but if
I undertand things
>correctly (which is by no means certain) $S_Session is
already an associatve
>array so it wouldn't be so easy to just add a variable
number of messages to it
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know what I mean?
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> Perhaps if I give you my second question it may help
illustrate what I'm going
>on about in part 1
> ii) The way I have tried to do it is to set it up as an
array ($ERRORS) in the
>validation module and then added a text string each time
I hit a specific
>error. The hope was that I could then send this back via
the URL for further
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not possible .... a
>brief example ...
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> $ERRORS = array();
> $ERRORS = $_GET['errors']
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below).
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user13415143 wrote:
Hi. I have created a function (Retrieve_SerialNo) which returns a variable, which I use throughout my package. I would like to assign this variable as a global variable to be used by all functions and procedures in the package.All variables have scope or "visibility". A variable defined in a procedure is only visible within that procedure.
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query parameter and in some queries the parameters are used more
then once. By creating a single variable in for the recordset I've
allways been able to check and recheck the single variable in the
query using the standard recordset. Now in version 8.02 I am
getting the error: Missing type for variable:colname
So where:
SELECT *
FROM links
WHERE LinkID = colname or colname=-1
ORDER BY `Level` DESC
used to work it does not work any more!
I'm being forced to rewrite the query:
SELECT *
FROM links
WHERE colname in (-1,LinkID)
ORDER BY `Level` DESC
Simple enough but where the queries get more complex the more
variables I have to define!
This is not Cool! Can we get a bug fix for this so that I
dont have to rewrite all my queries!
P.S. Since when did anyone say that the Dreamweaver was SQL
injection safe! This issue should have been resolved back in the
Ultradev days! I guess Kudos goes to Adobe for finally trying to
address one of the biggest glaring issues dreamweaver has had since
it's inception. I was allways kinda upset that I was forced to pass
variables as text to sprintf when I knew they where numbers!
If I Look at the resultant code now I'm sure the result
sprintf will still be using %s instead of optionally specifying one
of the many diferent types (
% - a literal percent character. No argument is required.
b - the argument is treated as an integer, and presented as a
binary number.
c - the argument is treated as an integer, and presented as
the character with that ASCII value.
d - the argument is treated as an integer, and presented as a
(signed) decimal number.
e - the argument is treated as scientific notation (e.g.
1.2e+2).
u - the argument is treated as an integer, and presented as
an unsigned decimal number.
f - the argument is treated as a float, and presented as a
floating-point number (locale aware).
F - the argument is treated as a float, and presented as a
floating-point number (non-locale aware). Available since PHP
4.3.10 and PHP 5.0.3.
o - the argument is treated as an integer, and presented as
an octal number.
s - the argument is treated as and presented as a string.
x - the argument is treated as an integer and presented as a
hexadecimal number (with lowercase letters).
X - the argument is treated as an integer and presented as a
hexadecimal number (with uppercase letters).
This would further protect a query from being SQL Injected!
I'd hope that Adobe would enable a Site specfic setting or
something that would change the behaviour to match the passed
parameter to sprintf with the specified variable type (I'd guess
best practice to be Numeric be type f Text be type s and Date as
type s as well)

Start by saying bump.
I've still no word from Adobe if they are doing anything with
this problem. Any one had any replys from Adobe on it? Any one
found a work around with recoding queries?

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Hello Friends,
I have this Regexp, to extract the county code: (971)
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But, thinking in the future, someone may need to eliminate the country code of (961), so it is better if I put the code in a variable, but
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a varchar2 (15);
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begin
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venx08 wrote:
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SY.

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Hello All,
I am transferring a file from one server to another server.
File name is stored as Wip_DD-MM-YY .i.e if we run the program today the file is stored as Wip_18-FEB-09.txt.
This file i need to transfer.
My question is how do we assign the this filename to a variable.
i treid in the following way
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user user_name pass_Word
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ascii
get $MYFILE
bye
EOF
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Also i would like get the month name as FEB not as feb.
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Kind Regards,
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user624202,
The text 'File name is stored as Wip_DD-MM-YY' is not correct. It is stored as DD-MON-YY according to your text.
Also, the first letter of "wip" is written with a capital in your text, and with a lowercase in the script. Please check.
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I would like to emphasize that ftp is not a good solution, use sftp (part of the openssh suite) if possible. This will enable you to do authentication based on certificates, so you can do:
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Hello,
I am new to PHP, this is my first script I have made without any help, I am using xammp to test my site, but the basics of the code is this. I am adding an include code into the navigation menu and in the CSS I have defined certain rules for the nav. Now in the code when you click on one of the links, it will change the variable to a corresponding number. The Code is pretty much self explanatory.
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<?
$active = 1;
?>
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The Include works, as you can see below, but the code above does not work, because the home button should be a light yellow color.

I can't comment on your PHP, but you can achieve your desired result quite simply using this demo from Nancy.
http://alt-web.com/Articles/Persistent-Page-Indicator.shtml

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Hello all... perhaps someone can help:-
I have a Vector - "ToolList" - which contains objects - "Tools". These tools have characteristics like: "ToolName", "Weight", "Dimensions".
I'm trying to get the "ToolName" of each object listed in a ComboBox but I can't even access the "ToolName", farless list them in a combobox!
How can this done?
Ray.

Hello all... perhaps someone can help:-
I have a Vector - "ToolList" - which contains objects
- "Tools". These tools have characteristics like:
"ToolName", "Weight", "Dimensions".
I'm trying to get the "ToolName" of each object listed
in a ComboBox but I can't even access the "ToolName",
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When you add an object (or a vector of objects) to a ComboBox, it'll use the toString() method of those objects to get a String to display.
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