topic Re: Proper case label expression in Mapping Questions

Proper case label expression

TanyaOwens — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:24:43 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to convert all caps to proper case with more than one word in the field. For example the text in the field is "IRONWOOD RIDGE DR" and I want it to display as "Ironwood Ridge Dr".
Note that the example expression at http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00s800000027000000 capitalizes the first word but all other words are lowercase so I end up with "Ironwood ridge dr".
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Re: Proper case label expression

AnthonyGiles — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:28:52 GMT

Tanya,

Have a look at this post:

http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=982&t=190787

Regards

Anthony

Re: Proper case label expression

TanyaOwens — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:54:29 GMT

Thanks for the help but in the meantime I found the code in the help dialog button that was perfect (who would think to look there - it has been a long Monday) :):

  Function FindLabel([Name])     var = [Name]    splitStr = Split(var, chr(32))    for i = 0 to UBound(splitStr)       tmpStr = Trim(splitStr(i))        if len(tmpStr) > 0 then tmpStr = UCase(Left(tmpStr,1)) & LCase(Right(tmpStr, Len(tmpStr) -1))    splitStr(i) = tmpStr    next    ProperCase = join(splitStr, " ")    FindLabel = ProperCase    End Function