CAPS function

Converts any lowercase characters in a CHARACTER or LONGCHAR expression to uppercase characters, and returns the result.

Syntax 

 

CAPS ( expression )

expression

A constant, field name, variable name, or expression that results in a CHARACTER or LONGCHAR value.

Example 

In the following code example, the CAPS function converts the characters in the state field to uppercase:

 

r-caps.p

REPEAT:   PROMPT-FOR Customer.CustNum.   FIND Customer USING Customer.CustNum.   UPDATE Customer.Name Customer.Address Customer.City Customer.State.   Customer.State = CAPS(Customer.State).   DISPLAY Customer.State. END.

Notes 

The CAPS function returns uppercase characters relative to the settings of the Internal Code Page (-cpinternal) and Case Table (-cpcase) startup parameters. For more information on these parameters, see OpenEdge® Deployment: Startup Command and Parameter Reference.

The CAPS function is double‑byte enabled. The specified expression can yield a string containing double‑byte characters; however, the CAPS function changes only single‑byte characters in the string.

See also 

LC function