String case conversion in Batch

[John Stockton]

I enter "z filename" on lower case on the Command Line, and there should be a file "FILENAME.TXT" for "Z.BAT" to use - OK so far.

But I want to use "FILENAME", not "filename", within the Batch file, so that files created by the Batch have using the case of the first part of the .TXT file.

I do this with

:: Copy %1 as FILENAME case into %ZQ%
@dir /b %1.TXT | COLS '@SET * 'ZQ= 1-8 > ZQ.BAT & call ZQ.BAT & del ZQ.BAT

in which COLS.EXE is something I wrote long ago (' starts a space-less string, * gives a space, 1-8 gives that range of the piped input]. %1 is not used after that; %ZQ% is used instead.

Is there a better way of doing it, preferably in pure Batch - I know I could use MiniTrue instead?

The above relies on the case of "FILENAME", which is best for me; but, for interest, could one force upper-case?

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[John Stockton]

On Saturday, 21 August 2021 at 13:15:14 UTC+1, John Stockton wrote:
> I enter "z filename" on lower case on the Command Line, and there should be a file "FILENAME.TXT" for "Z.BAT" to use - OK so far.

...

> The above relies on the case of "FILENAME", which is best for me; but, for interest, could one force upper-case?

P.S. I now see that COLS would do that, if asked.

[JJ]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 05:15:13 -0700 (PDT), John Stockton wrote:
> I enter "z filename" on lower case on the Command Line, and there should
> be a file "FILENAME.TXT" for "Z.BAT" to use - OK so far.
>
> But I want to use "FILENAME", not "filename", within the Batch file, so
> that files created by the Batch have using the case of the first part of
> the .TXT file.
>
> I do this with
>
>:: Copy %1 as FILENAME case into %ZQ%
> @dir /b %1.TXT | COLS '@SET * 'ZQ= 1-8 > ZQ.BAT & call ZQ.BAT & del ZQ.BAT
>
>
> in which COLS.EXE is something I wrote long ago (' starts a space-less
> string, * gives a space, 1-8 gives that range of the piped input]. %1 is
> not used after that; %ZQ% is used instead.
>
> Is there a better way of doing it, preferably in pure Batch - I know I
> could use MiniTrue instead?
>
> The above relies on the case of "FILENAME", which is best for me; but,
> for interest, could one force upper-case?

Because batch file can't do substring search, doing it manually is slow.
(long text warning)

@echo off
setlocal
set inp=Hello 2 World!
echo inp=%inp%
echo pure batch:
call :upcase1 "%inp%" out1
echo out1=%out1%
echo external tool:
call :upcase2 "%inp%" out2
echo out2=%out2%
goto :eof

:upcase1 str varout
set ucl=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
set ucu=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
set "ucs=%~1"
set uco=
set uci=0
:ucc process char
call set ucc=%%ucs:~%uci%,1%%
if "%ucc%" == "" (
set %2=%uco%
goto :eof
)
set ucj=-1
set uck=0
rem find char in locase table
:ucm
call set ucd=%%ucl:~%uck%,1%%
if "%ucd%" == "" goto ucx
if "%ucd%" == "%ucc%" (
set ucj=%uck%
goto ucx
)
set/a uck+=1
goto ucm
rem if found, use char at same index in upcase table.
rem otherwise use source char.
:ucx
if %ucj% geq 0 (
call set uco=%uco%%%ucu:~%ucj%,1%%
) else call set uco=%uco%%%ucs:~%uci%,1%%
set/a uci+=1
goto ucc

:upcase2 str varout
for /f "usebackq delims=" %%A in (`mshta.exe "javascript:(function(){(new ActiveXObject('scripting.filesystemobject')).getstandardstream(1).writeline('%~1'.toUpperCase());close()})()"`) do @set "%2=%%A"
goto :eof