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Change String To Proper Case

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Submitted on: 4/24/2002 6:53:52 PM
By: bleh 
Level: Beginner
User Rating: By 2 Users
Compatibility: Delphi 5
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     I may be reinventing the wheel here, but so far I have yet to find a built in Delphi function that will convert a string to proper case. I found this code somewhere on the web a while back, lost it, and managed to recreate it last night.
 
 
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NOTE:Make sure to add "StrUtils" to your Uses section




function properCase(sBuffer: string):string; 

var

    iLen, iIndex: integer;

begin

    iLen := Length(sBuffer);

    sBuffer:= Uppercase(MidStr(sBuffer, 1, 1)) + Lowercase(MidStr(sBuffer,2, iLen));


    for iIndex := 0 to iLen do

    begin

      if MidStr(sBuffer, iIndex, 1) = ' ' then

          sBuffer := MidStr(sBuffer, 0, iIndex) + Uppercase(MidStr(sBuffer, iIndex + 1, 1)) + Lowercase(MidStr(sBuffer, iIndex + 2, iLen));

    end;


	
    Result := sBuffer;


end;


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