From: danco@pebble.org
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:47 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: STR$lowercase ?

In article <3C55B3D5.5F431CAB@UIowa.EDU>, Rick Dyson wrote:

>>     In the past I've used calls to BAS$EDIT, IIRC.  There was an old


Umm, but BAS$EDIT doesn't have "uppercase to lowercase" functionality,
does it?  I don't see it in any case.  :-)


EDIT$

  Syntax
  
  
           str-var = EDIT$(str-exp, int-exp)
	   
	        Values   Effect
		
		1%       Trim parity bits
		2%       Discard all spaces and tabs
		4%       Discard characters: CR, LF,FF, ESC, RUBOUT, and NULL
		8%       Discard leading spaces and tabs
		16%      Reduce spaces and tabs to one space
		32%      Convert lowercase to uppercase
		64%      Convert [ to ( and ] to )
		128%     Discard trailing spaces and tabs
		256%     Do not alter characters inside quotes
			                     
- Dan