HP Data Entry and Forms Management System (VPLUS) Reference Manual (32209-90024)

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Advanced Forms Design

UPSHIFT

Used to shift every lowercase character in a ﬁeld to its uppercase equivalent.

Syntax

UPSHIFT

Discussion

The UPSHIFT statement can be used to format data entered into or moved to any ﬁeld. (For

automatic formatting, refer to the SET command earlier in this section.) This statement

causes all alphabetic characters to be replaced with their uppercase counterparts. If edit

statements expect data to be uppercase but it could be entered in lowercase, this statement

should be executed prior to the edit statement. With Native Language Support, if a native

language ID has been speciﬁed in the forms ﬁle, the UPSHIFT formatting statement will

use native language upshift tables. For more information on Native Language Support, see

Section 8.

As is true of all formatting statements, UPSHIFT has an immediate effect on the data in the

memory buffer; the formatted data is then available for display or copying into the

application. When the user enters data into a ﬁeld for which formatting is speciﬁed, the

data is formatted as soon as

ENTER or an appropriate function key is pressed. Thus,

FORMSPEC formatting is done before data is written to the data or batch ﬁle. (In contrast,

reformatting through REFORMAT, described in Section 5, is done after data is collected,

edited, and written to the batch ﬁle.)

Example

Suppose the ﬁeld contains an United States state code that is to be checked against a list of

uppercase state codes. The following statements ensure that codes entered in lowercase

pass the edit:

UPSHIFT

IN "NY","NJ","PA"