Urgent: Please help

Hi.

Just did a few searches, but i couldn't find what i need. I am at work right now, and this has to be finished within an hour. So please, help me out.

I have a textbox (in Acces97) that holds the initials of someone's name. Mine for example would be just K. Or it could be more letters, like T.H.G. etc. Now the tricky part is: When the focus leaves the textbox, there should be running a function that checks the string. It needs to check to see if there are points or not. If not, they need to be put there. Example: THG -> T.H.G.

I hope someone has a solution. thanx in advance.

Hi
This is either very easy or very hard. Will the first part of the entry before say a space always be initials? Or could it also be the person's full first name? If it is initials OR names will initials always be indicated by capital letters? Can u pls just provide a little more info on the conditions so that I and others can help u more.
Regards
Stuart

They will always be initials, and not full names. I am not sure if they are capital. The functions needs to read the string, then go by them one by one if they are letters or a "." If it is a ".", it needs to do nothing, and move on to the next character.

If it is a letter, it needs to check the following character. If that is not a ".", it needs to put one there. If it is a ".", then it should move on to the next one. I hope this all makes sense. Thanx.

Hi, maybe u can use something like this ?

VB Code:

Private Sub Command3_Click()
    Dim s As String
    Dim ss As String
    Dim sNext As String
    Dim i As Integer
    
    
    For i = 1 To Len(Text1.Text)
        s = Mid(Text1.Text, i, 1)
        sNext = Mid(Text1.Text, i + 1, 1)
        If s <> "." Then
            If sNext <> "." Then
                ss = ss & s & "."
            Else
                ss = ss & s
            End If
        Else
            ss = ss & s
        End If
    Next i
    MsgBox ss
End Sub

Thank you, that is just what i needed. It works like a purring kitty! :D You saved the day.

This is a bit diff to Peet's cos actually forms whole name with initials based on ur original entry... besides he posted while i was typing :p
Regards
Stuart

VB Code:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim llngFirstSpace As Long 'Sorry for all Dims but just added to hopefully make more sense
    Dim lstrText As String
    Dim lstrInitials As String
    Dim lstrSecondName As String
    Dim lintCounter As Integer
    Dim lstrResult As String
    
    lstrText = Text1.Text 'Read into array for easier handling
    llngFirstSpace = InStr(1, lstrText, " ") - 1 'Find occurrence of first space / indicates initials
    lstrInitials = Left$(lstrText, llngFirstSpace) 'Parse off initials
    lstrSecondName = Right$(lstrText, Len(lstrText) - llngFirstSpace) 'Parse off remainder
    lstrInitials = Replace(lstrInitials, ".", "") 'Remove all dots before starting - saves checking
 
    For lintCounter = 1 To Len(lstrInitials) 'Loop thru initials
        lstrResult = lstrResult & Mid$(lstrInitials, lintCounter, 1)
        If lintCounter < Len(lstrInitials) Then lstrResult = lstrResult & "."
        'lstrResult = lstrResult & Mid$(lstrInitials, lintCounter, 1) & "."
        'Commented out line adds dots after all letters instead of all but last
    Next
    Text2.Text = lstrResult & lstrSecondName 'Reform the name
End Sub

Thank you also. Nice to see people helping eachother. :p :p

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Originally posted by Neomotion
Thank you, that is just what i needed. It works like a purring kitty! :D You saved the day.

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:) glad I could help.. was it within ur 1hour limit ? :)

Yep, got an half hour to spare. So thank you both very much.