[antlr-interest] stringtemplate lower case/upper case question
Martin d'Anjou
martin.danjou at neterion.com
Thu May 24 08:35:48 PDT 2007
Hi,
We use StringTemplate to produce many outputs based on an in-house created
language using ANTLR to parse. The following situation creeps up a lot:
depending on the target output, I need the same data (usually names) in either
upper-case, lower-case or the original mixed-case declaration. I've found
myself ending up writing a lot of this for example:
public String getFullName()
{
String regName = this.name.replaceFirst("n", String.valueOf(this.currentIndex+this.startIndex));
return regName+this.nameSuffix;
}
public String getFullNameLower()
{
return fullName().toLowerCase();
}
public String getFullNameUpper()
{
return fullName().toUpperCase();
}
And doing $blah.fullname$, $blah.fullNameLower$, or $blah.fullNameUpper$ in the
templates based on context.
I was wondering is there a better way that would save the writing of the extra
two functions (*Upper and *Lower)? If not, would StringTemplate not benefit
from a simple toLower and toUpper built-in syntax (e.g. $blah.fullName$,
$blah.fullName*UpperCase$, or $blah.fullName*LowerCase$) ?
P.S. So far I have over 30 "triplets" like this (and counting), hence my
frustration at the extra functions ;)
Thanks!
Martin
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