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SSRS or MS SQL Irish Names case conversion

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  • 10-03-2014 2:05pm
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    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    This question is completely arcane and I am just tossing it out there.

    My problem is that I work with a data source that stores names in the format
    Firstname (ALL CAPS) Surname (ALL CAPS).

    In SSRS I have the expression =StrConv(Fields!Firstname.Value,3) &" "& StrConv(Fields!Surname.Value,3)

    Great stuff as SEAN KIDNEYFAN now becomes Sean Kidneyfan and MARY KIDNEYFAN becomes Mary Kidneyfan.

    BUT

    MARY O'KIDNEYFAN is now Mary O'kidneyfan
    SEAN MCKIDNEYFAN is now Sean Mckidneyfan

    I can control the data and replace the names O'KIDNEYFAN with O' KIDNEYFAN etc. but I'd prefer not to do that.

    Thanks in advance?


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    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Can you use regular expressions ?


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    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    The application supports regular expressions.
    So far as my ability to use them is concerned ...


    What I did in the end was to =StrConv(Replace(Fields!SurName.Value,”'”, "' "),3) Buried in all those double quotes is an apostrophe replaced with apostrophe space. The string conversion works fine.


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