Thursday, July 29, 2010

Change UPPER CASE to Title Case / Proper Case - supports all punctuation

create function ProperCase(@Text as varchar(8000))
returns varchar(8000)
as
begin
declare @Reset bit;
declare @Ret varchar(8000);
declare @i int;
declare @c char(1);

select @Reset = 1, @i=1, @Ret = '';

while (@i <= len(@Text))
select @c= substring(@Text,@i,1),
@Ret = @Ret + case when @Reset=1 then UPPER(@c) else LOWER(@c) end,
@Reset = case when @c like '[a-zA-Z]' then 0 else 1 end,
@i = @i +1
return @Ret
end




select dbo.ProperCase('this,my friends, is a test.wHat DO you think?i like shaquile o''neal')