[TxMt] Re: How to target specific fields for a "Change to Titlecase" in SQL

[John Stephens]

Thanks, Nick. I appreciate your feedback.

On Aug 11, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Nick wrote:

> I can't help you with your question (not that great with regex's)  
> but I
> don't think you offended anyone, sometimes questions slip through
> unanswered. not sure why.
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:16 PM, John Stephens <john at designop.us>  
> wrote:
>
>> I posted the query below a few days ago and I'm wondering if I said
>> something offensive-- I haven't heard any responses. My situation
>> isn't dire, but if I violated list etiquette in some way, I'd like to
>> learn from my mistake. If the question isn't within the scope of the
>> list, that would be useful to know too.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>> Hi, I'm new.
>>>
>>> I'm working on a custom Textpattern installation and my client has
>>> entered a massive amount of text data in certain fields using
>>> UPPERCASE. He wants the text displayed in Title Case instead, and he
>>> doesn't want to manually change it. I can easily use the style
>>> declaration "text-transform: capitalize;" for these elements, but my
>>> client would very much prefer formal title case in which words such
>>> as "the," "of," "and," and "for" are not capitalized. (I see that
>>> Textmate's "Convert to Titlecase" command in the "Text" menu does
>>> this correctly.)
>>>
>>> I have made a mysql dump of the database, but I'm not sure how to
>>> isolate the appropriate data for a text transformation. Here is how
>>> each individual record is formatted in the database:
>>>
>>> (91,'2008-08-03 05:20:57','author-username','2008-08-03
>>> 05:26:33','','UPPERCASE DATA','','','','','','','UPPERCASE-DATA','',
>>> 0,'Comment',0,4,1,1,'section-name','','lowercase-data','lowercase-
>>> data','','','','','','','','','','','UPPERCASE DATA','','lowercase-
>>> data','3p344629nn178n874sp2s222s0q3n072','2008-08-03')
>>>
>>> The mysql dump also contains uppercase terms such as "DROP TABLE IF
>>> EXISTS" and lowercase terms like "datetime" and "varchar" that I
>>> _don't_ want changed. Is there a simple way to target just the
>>> UPPERCASE DATA fields enclosed in single quotes for a massive  
>>> "Covert
>>> to Titlecase"?
>>>
>>> I welcome advice from regular expression fu-masters and Textmate
>>> adepts!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> John Stephens
>>
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