Text Conversion - Help!!

[AP]

I am fairly new with VB and am having problems converting certain parts of text to upper and lower case. As I enter text into a text box I need it to convert the vowels only to upper case and everything else to stay as lower. I also need to store this in a sequential file and then clear the box ready for the next line!! Can anyone help with this?? Please!!!

[smalig]

Use the UCase() and LCase() functions.

string = UCase(string) ' Returns a uppercase.
string = LCase(string) ' Returns a lowercase.

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[AP]

So how do I then specify specific characters to change to Uppercase once I have converted all of them to lower? Can I use the Ascii values? If so, how do I specify these??

Thanks,

AP

May not be the fastest way but this code works:

Private Sub Convert()
Text1.Text = LCase(Text1.Text)
Do
x = InStr(1, Text1.Text, "a", vbBinaryCompare)
If x > 1 Then Text1.Text = Mid(Text1.Text, 1, x - 1) & "A" & Mid(Text1.Text, x + 1, Len(Text1.Text) - x)
If x = 1 Then Text1.Text = "A" & Mid(Text1.Text, 2, Len(Text1.Text) - 1)
Loop Until x = 0
Do
x = InStr(1, Text1.Text, "e", vbBinaryCompare)
If x > 1 Then Text1.Text = Mid(Text1.Text, 1, x - 1) & "E" & Mid(Text1.Text, x + 1, Len(Text1.Text) - x)
If x = 1 Then Text1.Text = "E" & Mid(Text1.Text, 2, Len(Text1.Text) - 1)
Loop Until x = 0
Do
x = InStr(1, Text1.Text, "i", vbBinaryCompare)
If x > 0 And x <> 1 Then Text1.Text = Mid(Text1.Text, 1, x - 1) & "I" & Mid(Text1.Text, x + 1, Len(Text1.Text) - x)
If x = 1 Then Text1.Text = "I" & Mid(Text1.Text, 2, Len(Text1.Text) - 1)
Loop Until x = 0
Do
x = InStr(1, Text1.Text, "o", vbBinaryCompare)
If x > 1 Then Text1.Text = Mid(Text1.Text, 1, x - 1) & "O" & Mid(Text1.Text, x + 1, Len(Text1.Text) - x)
If x = 1 Then Text1.Text = "O" & Mid(Text1.Text, 2, Len(Text1.Text) - 1)
Loop Until x = 0
Do
x = InStr(1, Text1.Text, "u", vbBinaryCompare)
If x > 1 Then Text1.Text = Mid(Text1.Text, 1, x - 1) & "U" & Mid(Text1.Text, x + 1, Len(Text1.Text) - x)
If x = 1 Then Text1.Text = "U" & Mid(Text1.Text, 2, Len(Text1.Text) - 1)
Loop Until x = 0

End Sub



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[Joacim Andersson]

Or use the KeyPress event:

Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
Select Case LCase(Chr$(KeyAscii))
Case "a","e","o","i","u","y"
KeyAscii = Asc(UCase(Chr$(KeyAscii)))
Case Else
KeyAscii = Asc(LCase(Chr$(KeyAscii)))
End Select

Good luck!

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