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HP Data Entry and Forms Management System (VPLUS/V)

UPSHIFT 

Used to shift every lowercase character in a field to its uppercase
equivalent.

Syntax 

     UPSHIFT

Discussion 

The UPSHIFT statement can be used to format data entered into or moved to
any field.  (For automatic formatting, refer to the SET command earlier
in this section.)  This statement causes all alphabetic characters to be
replaced with their uppercase counterparts.  If edit statements expect
data to be uppercase but it could be entered in lowercase, this statement
should be executed prior to the edit statement.  With Native Language
Support, if a native language ID has been specified in the forms file,
the UPSHIFT formatting statement will use native language upshift tables.
For more information on Native Language Support, see Section 8.

As is true of all formatting statements, UPSHIFT has an immediate effect
on the data in the memory buffer; the formatted data is then available
for display or copying into the application.  When the user enters data
into a field for which formatting is specified, the data is formatted as
soon as ENTER or an appropriate function key is pressed.  Thus, FORMSPEC
formatting is done before data is written to the data or batch file.  (In
contrast, reformatting through REFORMAT, described in Section 5, is done
after data is collected, edited, and written to the batch file.)

Example 

Suppose the field contains an United States state code that is to be
checked against a list of uppercase state codes.  The following
statements ensure that codes entered in lowercase pass the edit:

     UPSHIFT
     IN "NY","NJ","PA"

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