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# 1  
Old 05-20-2009
Script to Convert Upper case to Lower case

Hi All

I have a script which extracts values from a Database (A persons name) and puts it into a variable in my script IE: $NAME
However the Value in the DB is all in uppercase and contains the users first name and last name

EG:

Code:
> echo $NAME
GRAHAM BOYLE
>

What I need is only the persons first name to be displayed and it should be in lower case except for the first letter

EG:

Code:
> echo $NAME
Graham
>

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks
G.
# 2  
Old 05-20-2009
which DB you are using ?? there are ways in DB to get value in upper, lower case

like in oracle you get upper, lower , initcap functions to do this so you do not need further processing on it ...

try to do that or search in forum
# 3  
Old 05-20-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by zedex
which DB you are using ?? there are ways in DB to get value in upper, lower case

like in oracle you get upper, lower , initcap functions to do this so you do not need further processing on it ...

try to do that or search in forum
Hi

yes I am using an Oracle DB

However there are parts of the script Where I need the users full name in uppercase

I only want their first name now and the first letter to be in uppercase

Is this possible?

Regards
G.
# 4  
Old 05-20-2009
Code:
echo 'jOE sHMOE' |  nawk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) {$i=tolower($i); sub(/./,toupper(substr($i,1,1)),$i)}}1'


Last edited by vgersh99; 05-20-2009 at 08:05 AM..
# 5  
Old 05-20-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by grahambo2005
...
Code:
> echo $NAME
GRAHAM BOYLE
>

What I need is only the persons first name to be displayed and it should be in lower case except for the first letter

EG:

Code:
> echo $NAME
Graham
>

...
If you have perl:

Code:
$
$ echo 'GRAHAM BOYLE' | perl -ne '{split; print ucfirst"\L$_[0]\n"}'
Graham
$

tyler_durden
# 6  
Old 05-20-2009
thanks for all you replies

I have decide to use this

Code:
NAME=`echo "$NAME" | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) {$i=tolower($i); sub(/./,toupper(substr($i,1,1)),$i)}}1'`
NAME=`echo "$NAME" | awk '{print $1}'`

Cheers
Guys
# 7  
Old 05-20-2009
if you have just ONE word, you don't need 2 awk's:
Code:
echo 'jOE' |  nawk '{$0=tolower($0);sub(/./,toupper(substr($0,1,1)),$0);print}'

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