This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
| Both sides previous revision Previous revision Next revision | Previous revision Next revision Both sides next revision | ||
|
dev:sql:functions:proper [2010/07/04 03:53] tdo |
dev:sql:functions:proper [2010/07/09 03:36] els |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| {{page>:top_add&nofooter&noeditbtn}} | {{page>:top_add&nofooter&noeditbtn}} | ||
| - | <html><div align="center"><span style="color:red">DRAFT</span></div></html> | ||
| - | ====== Omnidex SQL Function: CASE ====== | ||
| {{page>:sql_bar&nofooter&noeditbtn}} | {{page>:sql_bar&nofooter&noeditbtn}} | ||
| + | ====== Omnidex SQL Function: $PROPER ====== | ||
| ===== Description ===== | ===== Description ===== | ||
| - | The $PROPER function shifts the first letter of each word in a string to upper case and all other letters in the string to lower case. Words are delimited by white space (tabs, newlines, blanks) or punctuation (: ; , . ! ?). | + | Converts a string to proper case, meaning that the first character of each word in made upper case and the remaining characters are lower case. |
| + | |||
| + | This function returns the same datatype as the passed parameter. | ||
| - | See also: LOWER, UPPER | ||
| ===== Syntax ===== | ===== Syntax ===== | ||
| - | $PROPER( <column_spec } 'string' > ) | ||
| - | == <column_spec | 'string' > == | + | $PROPER( character_expression ) |
| - | + | ||
| - | Required. A string or scalar_expression that evaluates to a string. | + | |
| - | ===== Example ===== | + | == character_expression == |
| - | ==== Example 1 ==== | + | |
| - | select $proper(company), upper(company), lower(company) from customers where company='systems' | + | |
| - | $PROPER: Dynamic Information Systems Corporation | + | Required. Any expression that returns a character-class datatype. Examples of expressions are columns, concatenations of columns, literal strings and functions that return a character datatype. |
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | ===== Examples ===== | ||
| + | ==== Example: Column ==== | ||
| + | <code> | ||
| + | > select $proper(name) nme from individuals; | ||
| + | |||
| + | NME | ||
| + | -------------------------------------------------- | ||
| + | Ms. Mary Lewis | ||
| + | Mrs. Alice R Tolliver | ||
| + | Mr. Sidney K Tolliver | ||
| + | Mrs. Jennifer J Hopkins | ||
| + | Mr. Charlie Hopkins | ||
| + | Ms. Kimberly Blue | ||
| + | Kathleen Tucker | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| {{page>:bottom_add&nofooter&noeditbtn}} | {{page>:bottom_add&nofooter&noeditbtn}} | ||