Re: Fault with initcap

On 10/12/21 13:50, Shaozhong SHI wrote:
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> On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 at 20:34, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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> Which follows the definition here:
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-string.html
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-string.html>
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> initcap ( text ) → text
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> Converts the first letter of each word to upper case and the rest to
> lower case. Words are sequences of alphanumeric characters separated by
> non-alphanumeric characters.
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> Hi, Adrian Klaver,
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> It looks like that you replicated the error.

There is no error, initcap is doing what it is documented to.

notemachine is not two words anymore then 'online', 'bluebell',
'network' are.

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> There must be a way to do the following.

Maybe, but as Karsten says it would involve an AI. One that understands
the mutt language that is English.

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> a column contains a list of words.  Only the first letter of each word
> should be capitalised.  INITCAP can not do that.  How to create a
> function just to capitalised each word (substring) in a list of
> words/strings.  This will be very useful and create great impact.

From here:

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/14-of-the-longest-words-in-english/

uncopyrightable

where would you split that into words?:

Some 'words' I see:

un
unc
copy
copyright
right
table
able

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> Regards,
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> David

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