Converts any lowercase characters in a CHARACTER or LONGCHAR expression to uppercase characters, and returns the result. The data type of the returned value matches the data type of the expression passed to the function.

Syntax

CAPS ( expression )
expression
A constant, field name, variable name, or expression that results in a CHARACTER or LONGCHAR value.

Example

In the following code example, the CAPS function converts the characters in the state field to uppercase:

r-caps.p 

REPEAT:
  PROMPT-FOR Customer.CustNum.
  FIND Customer USING Customer.CustNum.
  UPDATE Customer.Name Customer.Address Customer.City Customer.State.
  Customer.State = CAPS(Customer.State).
  DISPLAY Customer.State.
END.

Notes

  • The CAPS function returns uppercase characters relative to the settings of the Internal Code Page (-cpinternal) and Case Table (-cpcase) startup parameters. For more information on these parameters, see Startup Command and Parameter Reference.
  • The CAPS function is double-byte enabled. The specified expression can yield a string containing double-byte characters; however, the CAPS function changes only single-byte characters in the string.

See also

LC function