Re: st: RE: string function "Sentence case"

[Andrea Bennett <mac.stata@gmail.com>]

This is working, too. Many thanks!

On Jun 4, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Scott Merryman wrote:

> regexr(<string>, word(<string>,1) ,proper(word(<string>,1)) )
>
> Scott
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
>
> > You don't need one (much).
> >
> > upper(substr(<string>,1,1)) + substr(<string>,2,.)
> >
> > Andrea Bennett
> >
> > Is there a string function to change a string to sentence case? E.g
> > "foreign labor integration" --> "Foreign labor integration"
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