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Customizing dynamic variables on Subject Line

  • May 7, 2018
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Greetings community,

I am working with an email campaign, where the First Name variable is pulled from a data extension. Now, that is not the problem.

The issue at hand is that, some of these names are all capitalized, and others can be all lower case.

I have tried doing something like <% targetData.FirstName.toUpperCase(); %> but all that does is to return an empty string.

Does anyone know a work around it?

Many thanks in advance

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    Best answer by andreab24032044

    Hello marcel.gent.86,

    Unfortunately I was unable to get both suggestions to work on my end.

    However, after some more research, i found the following to work great on my end:

    <%

    var name = targetData.FIRST_NAME;

    name = name. toLowerCase().replace(/\b[a-z]/g, function(e) {
           return e.toUpperCase();
    });

    %>

    <%=name%>, Best email ever!

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    Marcel_Szimonisz
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    Marcel_SzimoniszCommunity Advisor
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    May 8, 2018

    Hello andreab24032044​,

    you need to print it by <%=

    <%= recipient.firstName.toUpperCase()%>

    <%= and also do not use ; when printing variable 

    <%= recipient.firstName.toUpperCase();%>

    Will throw an error.

    Do you need to capitalize just the first letter? If yes then you can use something similar:

    <%= (recipient.firstName.length>3) ?  recipient.firstName.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + recipient.firstName.slice(1) : "" %>

    Marcel

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      andreab24032044AuthorAccepted solution
      Level 2
      May 8, 2018

      Hello marcel.gent.86,

      Unfortunately I was unable to get both suggestions to work on my end.

      However, after some more research, i found the following to work great on my end:

      <%

      var name = targetData.FIRST_NAME;

      name = name. toLowerCase().replace(/\b[a-z]/g, function(e) {
               return e.toUpperCase();
      });

      %>

      <%=name%>, Best email ever!

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      After

      Marcel_Szimonisz
      Community Advisor
      Marcel_SzimoniszCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      May 8, 2018

      I do not understand. It is almost the  same thing but done differently

      Marcel

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