Text - Convert Case
Declaration
<AMTEXT ACTIVITY="convert_case" TEXT="text" RESULTVARIABLE="text" CASE="text (options)" />
Description: Converts the specified text to upper case or lower case letters and populates a variable with results.
Practical Usage
Commonly used to change the case of selected portions of text. You can use it to change text to be all lower case, all upper case or apply title case.
General Parameters
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Property |
Type |
Required |
Default |
Markup |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Text to Convert |
Text |
Yes |
(Empty) |
TEXT="convert to upper case" |
The target text to convert. As with every text parameter, if the data you wish to convert is contained in a variable, simply enter the variable name surrounded by percentage signs to resolve it to it's contents at runtime (e.g., %variableName%). |
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Convert |
Text (options) |
No |
Upper Case |
CASE="upper_case" |
The case to convert the text to. The available options are:
|
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Populate variable with result |
Text |
Yes |
(Empty) |
RESULTVARIABLE="varname" |
The name of an existing variable in which to populate the newly converted text. |
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Example
The sample AML code below can be copied and pasted directly into the Steps panel of the Task Builder.
Description: This task demonstrates ability to convert text to upper case, lower case and proper sentence case.
<AMVARIABLE NAME="theVar" /> <AMSHOWDIALOG ACTIVITY="input" DEFAULTVALUE="enter a string of text here." RESULTVARIABLE="theVar" WINDOWTITLE="Text to convert">This task demonstrates ability to convert text to upper case, lower case and proper sentence case. </AMSHOWDIALOG> <AMTEXT ACTIVITY="convert_case" TEXT="%theVar%" RESULTVARIABLE="theVar" /> <AMSHOWDIALOG WINDOWTITLE="The text converted to upper case."> %theVar%</AMSHOWDIALOG> <AMTEXT ACTIVITY="convert_case" TEXT="%theVar%" RESULTVARIABLE="theVar" CASE="lower_case" /> <AMSHOWDIALOG WINDOWTITLE="The text converted to lower case."> %theVar%</AMSHOWDIALOG> <AMTEXT ACTIVITY="convert_case" TEXT="%theVar%" RESULTVARIABLE="theVar" CASE="proper_case" /> <AMSHOWDIALOG WINDOWTITLE="The text converted to proper sentence case.">%theVar%</AMSHOWDIALOG>