Hi

Try this in the message box

put "abc" into ttxt
put toUpper(char 1 of ttxt) into char 1 of ttxt
put ttxt

will return Abc

Regards

Ian McKnight

On 28/02/2008, dcpbarrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  This has to be very simple, but I cannot find anything in the DOCs or an
>  example.
>
>  I have a database that I want to allow the user to querry a record by the
>  persons last name.  So I have a simple entry box with a button to querry the
>  database.
>
>  Works great as long as the user enters the text string in the same case as
>  has been entered in the database.  "Smith" = "Smith", but if the user enters
>  "smith" in the select box, the record is not found.
>
>  I want to do the database select with different text formats to make sure
>  that the record is found.
>  SELECT on "Smith", "smith", "SMITH"
>
>  I found the toupper() and tolower() functions, but how do you get the
>  function to change only the first letter toupper in a string?
>
>  Thanks in advance for the help.  This cannot be that hard.
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Ian

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