Hyphenated Name Rule???

[TroyM68]

Hello all,

I am trying to create a rule that will do two things if possible. This is really an email rule. I would like to format the email address to capitalize the first letter of both the first and last name... second, I would like the rule to search for a specific character in the email field, for example a hyphen (-), and then capitalize the first letter after the hyphen. I thought this would have been discussed, but I haven't been able to find a thread mentioning this. Please let me know if this is possible.

Example:
AnY.character-CAP@help.com
to:
Any.Character-Cap@help.com

Thank you!

[tou]

I came up with a code:

// Build a string of the letters A through Z
s = "my.name-cms@google-analytics.com"
var a = ""
var b = Len(s)
var passedAtSign  = 0
var printUpperChr = 0

for (c = 0; c < b; c++) {
    // checks to see if we are passed our @ sign
    if (Mid(s, c+1 ,1)=="@")
        passedAtSign = 1
    
    // Upper case 1st character of email
    if (c==0)
        a = a + ToUpper(Mid(s, c+1 ,1))
        else 
        {
        // if after 1st pass it's a period or dash, 
        // toggle printUpperChr should be set to 1
        // and if not passed the @ sign, passedAtSign
        // should still be 0 at this point
        if (printUpperChr == 1 && passedAtSign==0)
            a = a + ToUpper(Mid(s, c+1 ,1))
            else
            a = a + ToLower(Mid(s, c+1 ,1))

        //flags to print next character upper
        if (Mid(s, c+1 ,1)=="." || Mid(s, c+1 ,1)=="-")
            printUpperChr = 1
            else
            printUpperChr = 0
        }
    
    }

return a;

and came up with the results of:
My.Name-Cms@google-analytics.com

Hopes this helps....

[TroyM68]

Tou,
This worked perfectly, Thank you!