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- PROGRAM NAME: Capstr.PRG
-
- DESCRIPTION: Routine to capitalize the first letter of words in
- a character string.
-
- ISSUE: July, 1985
- PAGE: 30
-
- SOFTWARE VERSIONS: dBASE III, versions 1.0, 1.1
-
- FUNCTION: The following routine takes a character string passed
- as a parameter and returns the string with the first letter of
- each word capitalized. The words "a," "an," "and," "for," "in,"
- "or," and "the" are not capitalized unless they are the first
- word in the string.
-
- FILES NEEDED: Capstr.PRG
-
- SETUP INSTRUCTIONS: Type DO Capstr WITH <string>, where string
- is the variable that you want to capitalize. If the PARAMETERS
- statement is used to pass the character string both in and out of
- this routine, the parameter passed must be a memory variable and
- not a literal string. Additionally, avoid using the memory
- variable alias "M->." It is not currently supported as a valid
- parameter.
-