Re: Writing in all caps

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Susannah,

You can also use the UPPERCASE statement, which is a little
more efficient (and less typing):

  UPPERCASE $LastName
  UPPERCASE $FirstName
  UPPERCASE $MidInitial

If you're writing a plain text file (as opposed to a PostScript or
HP file) you could always convert the file to upper case after
you've generated the report, if that's more convenient.
This would involve using OPEN, READ, WRITE, etc.

There is no "uppercase only" option for generating reports.
You'll have to do it on your own.

Ray

> The way I do it is I create a Assign-Values procedure to do all the
> formating before I write the file.  In the proc I use something like
> this:
>
>       let  $w_DC.last_name          = upper($LastName)
>       let  $w_DC.first_name         = upper($FirstName)
>       let  $w_DC.middle_init        = upper($MidInitial)
>
> This works for me, but there may be a better way.
>
>
> >----------
> >From:  Susannah Wells[SMTP:susannah_wells@PAGENET.COM]
> >Sent:  Tuesday, November 11, 1997 1:30 PM
> >To:    Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS
> >Subject:       Writing in all caps
> >
> >Does anyone know how to write your output file in all caps?
> >
> >TIA,
> >Susannah Wells
> >Software Engineer
> >Paging Network, Inc.
> >Work 972-985-6352
> >Pager 214-835-9638, Dallas Pin 0 005-3565
> >Internet susannah_wells@pagenet.com
> >
>

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