String Functions Question — upper, lower, title_case, and first_cap

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I’m a newbie to Adventuron, so apologies if my query is something I should be able to deduce on my own — though I’ve scoured the documentation and these forums and haven’t been able to solve my issue.

In the game I’m writing, I ask the player for their name (an ask_string) during on_startup. I then want to identify the player by their reply later, which is easy to do. But, I want to format their reply with title_case and that doesn’t seem to be working.

At current, I’ve written an on_pre_describe element that assigns a new set_string before loading the first location with this new string being set as the formatted version of their ask_string input. It looks something like this:
on_pre_describe {
: if (is_at “room_one”) {
: set_string var=“formatted_string_output” {( title_case("{asked_string_answer}") )};
}
}

The editor won’t let me proceed as it doesn’t accept title_case as valid, which it also does when I try first_cap instead. I can use upper and lower functions, but they don’t seem to work properly — upper blanks the input and lower passes it thru unformatted.

If someone could please give me guidance as to what I’m doing wrong, it would be greatly appreciated!

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Hi,

Thanks for your post.

I think this is my fault. The current version of Adventruon (adventuron.io/classroom) is a stability version of Adventuron, and hasn’t been updated for about 2 or 3 months now.

I think I accidentally updated the documentation based on the beta version (which added title_case).

If you are coding something new, then the beta is probably better to use right now.

adventuron.io/beta

I tested this as working at the beta url:

start_at = my_location

locations {
   my_location : location "You are in a room." ;
}
strings {
   name : string "" ;
}
on_startup {
   : ask_string question = "What is your name?"  var = "name" ;
   : print {(
      "Title Case Name = " +  title_case (name) + "\n" +
      "First Cap Name = " +   first_cap (name)  + "\n" +
      "Lower Case Name = " +  lower (name)      + "\n" +
      "Upper Case Name = " +  upper (name) 
   )}
   : press_any_key ;
}
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The title_case() function was previously called camel(), so if the former doesn’t work, try the latter. However, be prepared to do a search and replace when the main classroom web site gets updated.

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Thanks, Chris & Garry! It indeed does work as expected in the beta version. Glad I asked. Thanks again!