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Playing with Strings

  
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>String Play</TITLE>
<SCRIPT> 
function capWords(str){ 
   var words = str.split(" "); 
   for (var i=0 ; i < words.length ; i++){ 
      var aWord = words[i]; 
      var firstLetter = aWord.substr(0,1);
      var rest = aWord.substr(1, aWord.length -1) 
      words[i] = firstLetter.toUpperCase() + rest 
   } 
   document.theForm.results.value = words.join(" "); 
} 
function countWords(str){ 
    var count = 0; 
    var words = str.split(" "); 
    for (i=0 ; i < words.length ; i++){ 
       if (words[i] != "") 
          count += 1; 
    } 

   document.theForm.results.value = "(" + count + ")"; 
} 
function revWords(str){ 
   var words = str.split(" "); 
   var j = words.length - 1; 
   var backWords = new Array(); 
   for (i=0 ; i < words.length ; i++){ 
      backWords[j] = words[i]; 
      j--;
   } 
   document.theForm.results.value = backWords.join(" "); 
} 
function revString(str) { 
   var retStr = ""; 
   for (i=str.length - 1 ; i > - 1 ; i--){ 
      retStr += str.substr(i,1); 
   } 
   return retStr; 
} 
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM name="theForm">
<TABLE>
<tr><td colspan=5> Enter a text string: </td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=5><TEXTAREA name=inStr rows=5 cols=90></TEXTAREA>/td></tr>
<tr><td><INPUT type=button value="Capitalize Words" onClick="capWords(document.theForm.inStr.value)";>
</td><td><INPUT type=button value="Count Words" onClick="countWords(document.theForm.inStr.value)";>
</td><td><INPUT type=button value="Reverse Words" onClick="revWords(document.theForm.inStr.value)";>
</td><td><INPUT type=button value="Reverse String" onClick="document.theForm.results.value = revString(document.theForm.inStr.value)";>
</td><td>
<INPUT type=button value="Clear" onClick='document.theForm.inStr.value=""';>
</td></tr><tr><td colspan=5>
<br><hr> Results<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=5>
<TEXTAREA name=results rows=5 cols=90>
</TEXTAREA>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=5>
<INPUT type=button name="theButton" value="Clear Results" 
   onClick='document.theForm.results.value=""';>
</td>
</tr>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>           
         
    
  








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