MySQL String function equivalent to PHP ucwords () function

Question

Possible duplicate:
MySQL - the capital letter of each word in an existing table

Is there a MySQL String function equivalent to the PHP ucwords() function.

The ultimate goal is to use MySQL to capitalize the first letter of each word in a string.

Example.

 -- The name field in the table holds "JOHN DOE" SELECT LOWER(name) FROM table 

This will give me the result of 'john doe'

I want the result to be 'john doe'

Answer 1

This article shows how to determine the correct example in MySQL: The correct option .

It is included in case of rotting links:

 DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS proper; SET GLOBAL log_bin_trust_function_creators=TRUE; DELIMITER | CREATE FUNCTION proper( str VARCHAR(128) ) RETURNS VARCHAR(128) BEGIN DECLARE c CHAR(1); DECLARE s VARCHAR(128); DECLARE i INT DEFAULT 1; DECLARE bool INT DEFAULT 1; DECLARE punct CHAR(18) DEFAULT ' ()[]{},.-_\' !@ ;:?/'; -- David Rabby & Lenny Erickson added \' SET s = LCASE( str ); WHILE i <= LENGTH( str ) DO -- Jesse Palmer corrected from < to <= for last char BEGIN SET c = SUBSTRING( s, i, 1 ); IF LOCATE( c, punct ) > 0 THEN SET bool = 1; ELSEIF bool=1 THEN BEGIN IF c >= 'a' AND c <= 'z' THEN BEGIN SET s = CONCAT(LEFT(s,i-1),UCASE(c),SUBSTRING(s,i+1)); SET bool = 0; END; ELSEIF c >= '0' AND c <= '9' THEN SET bool = 0; END IF; END; END IF; SET i = i+1; END; END WHILE; RETURN s; END; | DELIMITER ; select proper("d'arcy"); +------------------+ | proper("d'arcy") | +------------------+ | D'Arcy | +------------------+