Thread: {author_sort}. How to template-save the author's last name in capital letters?
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Old 10-30-2018, 07:51 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
A template function is probably the best because it is the fastest. However, should you want to do it in the template language, this seems to work.
Code:
program: list_re_group(field('author_sort'), ' & ', '.', '(.*?)(,|$)(.*)', '{$:uppercase()}')
It first separates the list of authors, Then for each author it applies a regexp to find the value before the comma and uppercases that value. If there isn't a comma then the entire author is uppercased.
Well, I did say there was probably a better way to do it

I'm not sure if I had read the description of the list_re and list_re_group functions. If I did, they didn't sink in. But, with that example, it's obvious what they do.
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