Re: Need help to convert a name in upper case, to mixed case

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 4:58 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This site https://dialect.ca/code/name-case/#output <https://dialect.ca/code/name-case/#output> has a Regex based routine that looks as if it could be converted to Regex in RPG or set up a simple in-house web service or whatever to use it. PHP Source code is here https://dialect.ca/code/name-case/name_case.phps <https://dialect.ca/code/name-case/name_case.phps> but could be adapted quite easily.

The "could be adapted quite easily" definitely does apply to Python,
and this would certainly handle a wide variety of inputs better than
the naive functions that are included with Python (including the ones
mentioned in the Python samples already given in this thread).

But there is already a third-party Python package for this (and more):

https://pypi.org/project/nameparser/

So, if the Python built-ins and standard library aren't enough, the
most practical and idiomatic thing to do would be to install that
package. Assuming you already have IBM's Python 3 for PASE installed,
it would be

pip3 install nameparser

at a PASE command shell. If you have neither PHP nor Python already
installed, but do have Node.js, then the leading package for this
stuff seems to be

https://www.npmjs.com/package/namecase

which you should be able to install similarly easily using npm.

If you don't have any of PHP, Python, or Node.js installed, then you
might as well pick either or both of the latter two, because those are
now super-easy to install using yum.

John Y.