Lower case
Last modification: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:47 amConverts a string to lower case.
Required parameters
Parameter 1 (string)A string that is converted to lower case.
Implementation
on lowercase(_string)-- Define character sets
set _lowercaseCharacters to "a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z"
set _uppercaseCharacters to "A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z"
set _lowercaseSpecialCharacters to {138, 140, 136, 139, 135, 137, 190, 141, 142, 144, 145, 143, 146, 148, 149, 147, 150, 154, 155, 151, 153, 152, 207, 159, 156, 158, 157, 216}
set _uppercaseSpecialCharacters to {128, 129, 203, 204, 231, 229, 174, 130, 131, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 132, 133, 205, 238, 239, 241, 206, 134, 242, 243, 244, 217}
set _prvDlmt to AppleScript's text item delimiters
-- Convert comma seperated strings into a list
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ","
set _lowercaseCharacters to text items of _lowercaseCharacters
set _uppercaseCharacters to text items of _uppercaseCharacters
-- Add special characters to the character lists
repeat with _i from 1 to count of _lowercaseSpecialCharacters
set end of _lowercaseCharacters to ASCII character (item _i of _lowercaseSpecialCharacters)
end repeat
repeat with _i from 1 to count of _uppercaseSpecialCharacters
set end of _uppercaseCharacters to ASCII character (item _i of _uppercaseSpecialCharacters)
end repeat
-- Loop through every upper case character
repeat with _i from 1 to count of _uppercaseCharacters
considering case
if _string contains (item _i of _uppercaseCharacters) then
-- Delimit string by upper case character
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (item _i of _uppercaseCharacters)
set _stringItems to text items of _string
-- Join list by lower case character
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (item _i of _lowercaseCharacters)
set _string to _stringItems as string
end if
end considering
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to _prvDlmt
return _string
end lowercase
