I had the need to UPSHIFT a string just last week, so I made one in C.
It's very simple, so anybody should be able to use it.

At my home page there's a C-language UPSHIFT function (as well as a few
other tools) to link in with a 4GL function.  A sample 4GL program is also
included to illustrate using it.  It is for strings.  You pass it a string
and it UPSHIFTS the whole string.  This is not a complicated artificial
intelligence engine, scanning the string and avoiding already UPSHIFTED
characters.  It just does the whole string no matter what.  It uses the
toupper()  C-language function.  You can copy this function and create
a tolower function as well.

Hope this can be of help!

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Enjoy!

Tim

why not just use the upshift function in 4GL.

BTW - I have a stored procedure to do an upshift in SQL,ACE, et al
if anyone wants a copy

Mike Aubury
Aubit Computing Ltd.

(Cuurently contracting - hence the e-mail address).

There is already an UPSHIFT and DOWNSHIFT function in 4GL, why would you write
another one?

Anon.

let mycharvar = upshift("abc")

yields

mycharvar = "ABC"

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I didn't read the right manual, and find the UPSHIFT FUNCTION.  As you
are probably aware, the UPSHIFT FUNCTION is in the appendix of the
manuals.  Of course, had I read the index at the back of the book it
would have been apparent.  So I'm guilty of not RTFM...  :-)  

At least I can go to the beach and wax philosophical about it.  :-)

Maybe one saving grace to my blunder is that you can set the string length
to any length you want with my version.  The INFORMIX function limits the
length to 512 characters--at least in the older version.  So it might not
be a total loss...They can even co-exist...

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. --whoever

:-)

Tim

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