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Hi,
In the 'Name' field of String type is appearing all capital letters. I want to appear it as first
letter is capital and rest all small. If there is space between two characters, then the second
should appear as Caps again.
Ex:
1. PETER Should appear like Peter
2. ALEXANDAR PETER Should appear as Alexander Peter
Is it possible in SSRS or SQL Query ?
I am using SQL Server 2005 SSRS Reporting Services.
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Edited by meemkay Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:43 AM

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Sure. You could do this in VB or SQL. Here's a quick exmaple of doing this using a VB
function. Open the Report Properties dialog and paste this code into the Code window:

Function ProperCase(InputString as String) As String

Dim i as Integer
If InputString <> "" Then
Mid(InputString , 1, 1) = UCase(Mid(InputString , 1, 1))

For i = 1 To Len(InputString) - 1
If Mid(InputString, i, 2) = Chr(13) + Chr(10) Then
Mid(InputString, i + 2, 1) = UCase(Mid(InputString, i + 2, 1))
End If
If Mid(InputString, i, 1) = " " Then
Mid(InputString, i + 1, 1) = UCase(Mid(InputString, i + 1, 1))
End If
Next
Return InputString
End If
End Function
In a textbox, right-click. Choose Expression... and type:
=Code.ProperCase("the cow jumped over the moon.")
If you want to apply this logic to a field, enter:
=Code.ProperCase(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value)
Preview the report.
I hope this is helpful.

Paul Turley [Hitachi Consulting] SQLServerBIBlog.com

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Strange, it works fine both with field and string. Could you create three columns for comparison, to see if
there are some differences between three columns?

=Code.ProperCase(LCase(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value))
=Code.ProperCase(cstr(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value))
= LCase(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value)

Also, if this issue is caused by the field format, it will through warning message not the error message.

Hope this helps.

Raymond

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Hi,
It works with

=Code.ProperCase( LCase (Fields!SomeFieldName.Value)).

Thanks a lot.....

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There is not RS option but rather .NET option. Write your own report custom code in
VB.NET. It's not a hard problem.
Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:17 AM
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Sure. You could do this in VB or SQL. Here's a quick exmaple of doing this using a VB
function. Open the Report Properties dialog and paste this code into the Code window:

Function ProperCase(InputString as String) As String

Dim i as Integer
If InputString <> "" Then
Mid(InputString , 1, 1) = UCase(Mid(InputString , 1, 1))
For i = 1 To Len(InputString) - 1
If Mid(InputString, i, 2) = Chr(13) + Chr(10) Then
Mid(InputString, i + 2, 1) = UCase(Mid(InputString, i + 2, 1))
End If
If Mid(InputString, i, 1) = " " Then
Mid(InputString, i + 1, 1) = UCase(Mid(InputString, i + 1, 1))
End If
Next
Return InputString
End If
End Function
In a textbox, right-click. Choose Expression... and type:
=Code.ProperCase("the cow jumped over the moon.")

If you want to apply this logic to a field, enter:

=Code.ProperCase(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value)
Preview the report.
I hope this is helpful.

Paul Turley [Hitachi Consulting] SQLServerBIBlog.com

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Hi,
When I type '=Code.ProperCase(Fields!<ColumnName>.Value)' in Expression editor,
there is no change in the result
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Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:47 AM
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Hi Meemkay,

Using Custom Code as Paul mentioned to achieve that is a good choice, it works fine in my case. Did you get
some warning message? Or when you type the expression like this: =Code.ProperCase("the cow jumped over
the moon."), can you get the respected result?

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Hi,
Yeah...... it works when i place in the expression editor
jumped over the moon."),but when i place

like this: =Code.ProperCase("the cow

=Code.ProperCase(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value), it

doesn't work.
Note: It does not fetch any error messege, indeed the result set is not affected at all.
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Strange, it works fine both with field and string. Could you create three columns for comparison, to see if
there are some differences between three columns?

=Code.ProperCase(LCase(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value))
=Code.ProperCase(cstr(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value))
= LCase(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value)

Also, if this issue is caused by the field format, it will through warning message not the error message.

Hope this helps.

Raymond

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Hi,
It works with

=Code.ProperCase( LCase (Fields!SomeFieldName.Value)).

Thanks a lot.....

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meemkay, have you seen in the code above the characters are being set to upper case?
So you will probably have to do something like:
=Code.ProperCase(LCase(Fields!SomeFieldName.Value))
If you source string is all uppercase
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 1:36 PM
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Gracias. me sirvio de mucha ayuda

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I use this with no custom code in the Code window. Much easier.
=strConv(Fields!CUST_NAME.Value,vbProperCase)

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Well i faced the same issue, but i used ASCII conversion for expression and trim.
example for displaying Dear Melinda, This is what i used,
=Chr(68)+Chr(101)+Chr(97)+Chr(114)+Chr(160)+Left(Fields!
first_name.Value,1)+RTrim(LCase(Right(Fields!first_name.Value,Len(Fields!
first_name.Value)-1)))+Chr(44).
You can find the ASCII code values here,
http://www.web-source.net/symbols.htm
Best of luck. :)

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:48 PM
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The above code some times it is working and some times it shows #error why?
suppose ex: name='Narendra Babu '
the above example it shows #error
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Hi,
Check with StrConv function:
=StrConv("NAREndra Babu ", vbProperCase,NOTHING)

Regards,

Asim Bagwan
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It is correctly working Thank Q

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I use this with no custom code in the Code window. Much easier.
=strConv(Fields!CUST_NAME.Value,vbProperCase)

It is working
Friday, January 20, 2012 10:49 AM
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its working
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