Posted by BLob on 08/31/06 15:14

> I have abunch of names that I'd like to normalize case-wise. Some are
> lowercase (joe jackson), some uppercase (JOE JACKSON), and some correctly
> cased (Joe Jackson). ucfirst(strtolower('JOE JACKSON')); works for most
> cases, but if there's a name with a hyphen, ie. BILLY-BOB JOHNSON and
> jack-bob johnson and Bob-Bob Johnson, they're turned into Billy-bob etc...

Lucky you if "your" names do not have accents signs (meaning �, �, � and
others) ! Otherwise your method wouldn't work, as it would transform
"STEPHANE" into "Stephane" ("STEPHANE" is correct because capital letters do
not take accents, whereas "Stephane" should be written "St�phane").

> The letter after the hyphen should be uppercased as well, not just the
ones
> after space. Anyone got idea how to do this?

A dirty trick :
Replace "-" by "- ".
Then do your ucfirst(strtolower($name));
Them replace back "- " by "-".
That should do it !


BLob

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