Thursday, January 10, 2013

Initcap Function


In Oracle/PLSQL, the initcap function sets the first character in each word to uppercase and the rest to lowercase.

Syntax

The syntax for the initcap function is:
initcap( string1 )
string1 is the string argument whose first character in each word will be converted to uppercase and all remaining characters converted to lowercase.

Applies To

  • Oracle 11g, Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, Oracle 8i

For Example

initcap('tech on the net');would return 'Tech On The Net'
initcap('GEORGE BURNS');would return 'George Burns'