[Solved] Why there is no toTitleCase for QString

[paucoma]

Hi Everyone!
I would like to reformat the case of some text which I recieve at an undetermined format. For Example:

• illUm QUI dOLOrEm eum ASPeriores REPELLAT

I have searched for the commonly know function toTitleCase in the Qt database and "found QChar":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qchar.html#toTitleCase to have this function. In the description of the function:
[quote]QChar QChar::toTitleCase () const
Returns the title case equivalent if the character is lowercase or uppercase; otherwise returns the character itself. [/quote]

• I don't quite understand what this does, or how it should be used.
  ** if you look at a single character alone how will it know if it needs to be titleCased or not?
• Is there a function under another name which does the same ?
  ** I'm Looking For A Basic Caps Letter At The Begining Of Each Word In The String.

I was thinking of making a simple algorithm myself to get this done, but if the function already exists then I don't need to reinvent the wheel. :)

Proposed Algorithm:
@
QString str = "illUm QUI dOLOrEm eum ASPeriores REPELLAT";
QRegExp re("\W\w");
int pos=-1;
str = str.toLower();
QChar * base = str.data();
QChar * ch;
do{
pos++;
ch = base + pos;
pos = str.indexOf(re, pos);
*ch = ch->toUpper();
}while(pos >= 0);
@

Thanks for any constructive criticism / comments / suggestions / contributions, and a great weekend to everyone!

Edit: Code Error, and better Regular Expression added

[tobias.hunger]

This is part of what the "unicode standard":http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ch05.pdf#G21180 has to say about titlecase:

bq. digraph compatibility characters, such as U+01F3 “dz” latin small letter dz, require one form when being uppercased, U+01F1 “DZ” latin capital letter dz, and another form when being titlecased, U+01F2 “Dz” latin capital letter d with small letter z. The latter form is informally referred to as a titlecase character, because it is mixed case, with the first letter uppercase.

[paucoma]

Aha!
Now I understand what TitleCase refers to, thanks for that reference.

Having read a bit now on how complex an actual proper title casing function would be I see why QString does not incorporate it.

A solution, for someone who would need proper title casing (not my case), would be adding a style and grammar check library.

[goetz]

[quote author="Pau" date="1301255549"]Aha!
Now I understand what TitleCase refers to, thanks for that reference.

Having read a bit now on how complex an actual proper title casing function would be I see why QString does not incorporate it.

A solution, for someone who would need proper title casing (not my case), would be adding a style and grammar check library.
[/quote]

And of course you would have to adapt it to the localization and internationalization settings to respect the different title casing in different languages.