Help Preserving the Character Case of a string...

[CES]

All,
I've run into a problem with a Field that I am passing a string value to via a module. I have a very specific case structure that I would like to preserve. Basically, the first letter of the First Name is capitalized First letter of the Middle Name is capitalized, and if Last Name is proper case.

IE: BTJohns, CESmith etc.

The problem that I am running into is that VBScript will sometimes convert the string that is returned from the function into what would be the equivalent of StrConv("XXX", vbProperCase):

So that the functions returned value "BTJohns" is converted into "Btjohns" and "CESmith" is converted into "Cesmith".

There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to when VBScript will impose this format change.

Any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. - CES

 

[Peter Yang [MSFT]]

Hello,

I understand that you have a VBA function that sometimes will convert
BTJohns" to "Btjohns". To know the issue better, will you let me know the
exact code of the function? How do you get the string you want? You
mentioned that the issue "sometimes" occurs. Do you mean the issue appear
randomly?

Also, you may want to consider use some simple function to capitalize the
first letter of a string to see if you could work around the issue.

Public Function strconvert(a As String) As String
Dim b As String
Dim c As String
c = Right(a, Len(a) - 1)
b = Left(a, 1)
b = StrConv(b, vbUpperCase)
strconvert = b + c
End Function

If you have any update, please feel free to let's know. Thank you.

Best Regards,

Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Peter Yang [MSFT]]

Hi,

I'm still interested in this issue. If you have any comments or more
details on this issue, please feel free to let's know. We look forward to
hearing from you.

Best Regards,

Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support


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