Shoutbox

Okay so I'm making some changes to a script (for personal reasons) which changes the first letter of a string to uppercase and adds a full stop to the end of the string.

This was all very well and if the string always had to end in a full stop but if I type something like "help!" the result would be "Help!." so I managed to get the script to, by default, add a full stop unless I added one myself or some other form of punctuation.

However my problem is I only want it to uppercase if there is actually a character a-z or A-Z as the first character as when I type Japanese characters it messes the first character up and if I try to send Messenger Plus commands like /busy or /all it creates problems with that too.

Soo yeah...any suggestions?

I've tried switches/case selects and if statements.

If I were able to code in VB/VBA then I'd be fine. Damn Javascript.

So yeah...answers on a postcard?

Actually, it's not javascript, it's Jscript (though they have many things in common).
As for your problem: If you can code in VB, you must have heard of regular expressions. They can also be used in Jscript, though I'm not sure how they handle the japanese characters.

code:

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function startsWithAlpha(message) {
    if(message.length == 0) { return false; }
    var alpha = "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM";
    var firstChar = message.charAt(0);
    for(i = 0; i < alpha.length; i++) {
        if(alpha.charAt(i) == firstChar) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

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This *should* work but I've not tested it and I've not coded in JS for ages.

quote:

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Originally posted by Burningmace

code:

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function startsWithAlpha(message) {
[...]
}

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can be reduced to one line using regexp

code:

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function startsWithAlpha(message){
    return /^[A-Za-z]/.test(message);
    }

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i'm not a master of reg exp so it might have some errors.. lol

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quote:

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Originally posted by vanillaflavoured
Okay so I'm making some changes to a script (for personal reasons)

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*cough*punctuator*cough* .

quote:

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However my problem is I only want it to uppercase if there is actually a character a-z or A-Z as the first character as when I type Japanese characters it messes the first character up and if I try to send Messenger Plus commands like /busy or /all it creates problems with that too.

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the code above should fix that.

code:

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function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWnd, Message){
if(startsWithAlpha(message)){
Message = "$" + Message.substr(1);
}
}
/*If I send 'LOL', it will output as '$OL'*/

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To uppercase the first character after you've detected that the fist character is indeed within the range a-Z you can do this:

code:

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message = message.charAt(0).toUpper() + message.substr(1);

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quote:

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Originally posted by Burningmace
To uppercase the first character after you've detected that the fist character is indeed within the range a-Z you can do this:

code:

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message = message.charAt(0).toUpper() + message.substr(1);

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This bit I had already sorted out.

Basically, here's what I already have and yes I know this all could probably be done MUCH more simply but like I said, I normally program databases in VB so I have NO experience with JScript etc.

code:

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function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(pChatWnd, Message){

var endChar = Message.charAt(Message.length-1)

switch (endChar)
{
case "!":
  endChar = ""
  break;
case "?":
  endChar = ""
  break;
case ".":
  endChar = ""
  break;
case ")":
  endChar = ""
  break;
case ":":
  endChar = ""
  break;
default:
  endChar = "."
}

Message = Message.substr(0,1).toUpperCase() + Message.substr(1) + endChar
    return Message; 

}

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quote:

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Originally posted by vanillaflavoured

code:

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function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(pChatWnd, Message){
[...]
}

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shortened:

code:

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function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWnd, Message){
if(/[a-z\d]$/i.test(Message)) Message += ".";
return Message.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + Message.substr(1);
}

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It's still not letting me use the Messenger Plus command though.

However it will let me use custom commands introduced by other scripts. I just can't use the default ones...

I'm not sure if it's directly related to this script I'm trying to write though but if I deactivate it, it starts working then...soo...

That's because the code roflmao456 posted also adds a full stop to any commands you type. This should work:

code:

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function OnEvent_ChatWndSendMessage(ChatWnd, Message){
if(/[a-z\d]$/i.test(Message) && Message.charAt(0) != "/") Message += ".";
return Message.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + Message.substr(1);
}

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Cheers guys. Think that's done it. Everything seems to be working great.