[stringtemplate-interest] String manipulations

[Terence Parr]

On Sep 23, 2006, at 7:11 AM, John Snyders wrote:

> Here is the change I made to StringTemplate.java
>
> It is just the one line added to the end:
> 		to.attributeRenderers = from.attributeRenderers;

Fixed.  Thanks.

> Then in your templates you can use
> $upperCase(it=name)$
> or
> $name:upperCase()$

Yes, but doesn't that uppercase all strings?  Calling that upperCase  
template makes no sense to me...sorry.  Can you explain how that  
gives you control?  You could do $name:upperCase()$ and then have a  
renderer that sense what template it's in:

     public class UpperCaseRenderer implements AttributeRenderer
     {

         public String toString(Object o)
         {
             if (o instanceof String && template is "upperCase")
             {
                 String s = (String)o;
                 return s.toUpperCase();
             }
             return o.toString();
         }
     }

But you don't know what the surrounding template is :(

Ter