Split and join string

[Former Community Member]

Hi all.

I have a form with a textbox for the full name and I whant to uppercase the fist letter in the first and last name.

I have a function for that and all works well, the problem comes when there is a hypen "-" in the name. I have the split part working but on the join side I cant get it to work.

function ucFirstAllWords( str )
{
          var pieces = str.split(" "); //use this for space and "-" split (/[ \/-]/);
    for ( var i = 0; i < pieces.length; i++ )
    {
        var j = pieces[i].charAt(0).toUpperCase();
        pieces[i] = j + pieces[i].substr(1);
    }
    return pieces.join(" ");
}

If I use this code and slpit on both space and hypen all get join with space, I have tyed to make a function in function to capture the first hyphen but that didn't work probably doing it wrong

Does anyone have any idea how to solve it?

I'm using LC 8.0

Thanks.

//Fredrik Nordstrand, Sweden

[Vjay_Reddy]

I gave "john-smith" for this im getting result as "John-smith".It is working as i expected. Is that what u wanted?

Vjay

[Former Community Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Vjay.

I want "john doe" to be "John Doe" and "ann-lee rose bush" to be "Ann-Lee Rose Bush"

Do I make any sense?

The scrip woks fine but not with a name that contains a hypen.

If I use the split to include the hypen then "ann-lee" becomes "Ann Lee" and thats not right.

[Jono_Moore]

Put this code on the exit event of the text field:

this.rawValue = this.rawValue.replace(/\b([a-z])/g, function (_, initial) {return initial.toUpperCase();});

This was originally posted by Srini in this thread:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3953615#3953615

[Former Community Member]

Thanks Jono, works great .

Very useful oneliner