LCWORD and LCWORD2: Converting a Character String to Mixed-Case

The LCWORD and LCWORD2 functions convert the letters in a character string to mixed-case. These functions convert character strings in the following way:

• LCWORD. Converts every alphanumeric character to lowercase except the first letter of each new word and the first letter after a single or double quotation mark. For example, O'CONNOR is converted to O'Connor and JACK'S to Jack'S.

  If LCWORD encounters a number in the character string, it treats it as an uppercase character and continues to convert the following alphabetic characters to lowercase.

• LCWORD2. Converts every alphanumeric character to lowercase except the first letter of each new word. LCWORD2 leaves any character after a single quotation mark as upper case, except that when there is at least one non-blank character before the quote and just one character followed by either the end of the string or a space immediately after the quote, the next letter is converted to lowercase. For example, 'O’CONNOR' would be changed to 'O’Connor,' and JACK'S would be changed to Jack's.

To use these functions, you must import the function library MNTUWS. For information on importing this library, see Accessing and Calling a Function.

There is also an LCWORD function available for both the reporting and Maintain languages. For information on this function, see Character Functions.