Case Converter

Converts character string case to title, sentence, toggle, random, upper, or lower case.

Description

This function uses mostly the 'upper' and 'lower' functions to convert a text string to additional case types including 'Title Case', 'Sentence case', 'tOGGLE cASE', and 'RaNDoMizEd cASe'.

Type 'help caseconvert' for usage details.

Examples:

caseconvert('sample text','title') returns 'Sample Text'
caseconvert('Sample Text','toggle') returns 'sAMPLE tEXT'

caseconvert({'new york' 'california'},'randomized')
returns {'neW yoRk' 'CAlIFORnIA'}

caseconvert({'This Is A Test.' 'Matlab'},{'sentence' 'upper'})
returns {'This is a test.' 'MATLAB'}

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• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1)

[John D'Errico]

Nice idea. I noted that 'sentence' only catches the first character in the FIRST sentence. So if you have a string with two sentences, it misses the second. I'd also prefer to see error checking on the second argument. Even better is to allow the user to shorten the second argument, as long as this can be done unambiguously. Strmatch or strncmpi can help you to find the correct match. Thus allow upper to be shortened as 'upp' or even 'u'. 'title' or 'toggle' could be shortened only to 'ti' or 'to' respectively.

[Carlos Lopez]

I managed to remove all references to function isstrprop, allowing the stuff to run also for version 6.5. Remove the obvious _000_ from the e-mail to request a copy.

[Kevin J. Delaney]

Fantastic--just what I was looking for!