Convert first letter to small letter

[kaesereibe]

Why not add this feature to AutoIt StringLower:

StringLower ( "string", stringlen )

StringLower("string", 0 or empty) => lowercase all
StringLower("string", X >= 0) => lowercase x chars

[SmOke_N]

Yeah, but it's one command built into the language, and we let AutoIt worry about the implementation of it. I personally don't care HOW it's done I just want to get it done.

I want a quarter inch hole, not a quarter inch drill.

I'd rather make a single wrapper call to a dll most of the time, but in fairness, I'd imagine stringlower + stringleft + stringtrimleft is 5 to 10x's faster than the dll call.

And for more giggles, a wrapper to the CharLowerBuff

Func _WinAPI_CharLowerBuff($sString, $iLen = Default)

    $iLen = ((IsKeyword($iLen) Or $iLen < 1) ? StringLen($sString) : $iLen)

    Local $aszRet = DllCall("user32.dll", "dword", "CharLowerBuffW", _
        "wstr", $sString, "dword", $iLen)
    If @error Or Not $aszRet[0] Then
        Return SetError(1, 0, "")
    EndIf

    Return SetError(0, $aszRet[0], $aszRet[1])
EndFunc

@kaesereibe

Maybe you should put that suggestion as a topic in Dev-Chat

Edited January 21, 2015 by SmOke_N

[kylomas]

Why not add this feature to AutoIt StringLower

 

After all of these examples of how easy it is to do at the user level?

 

@BrewmanH - I love it when these heavy hitters go off like this.  Learn something every time!!