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Need some help with a Masstagger script

There are times when the Capitalize function in Properties doesn't work as desired. Suppose a song title contains a hyphen (ie: The Times They Are A-Changin'). When I execute the Capitalize function, it changes the "C" to lower-case; I would prefer it not do that.

As a workaround, I use Masstagger:

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$replace(%title%,A-changin,A-Changin)


But I am completely lost when I am working with titles containing an apostrophe. The above string will only work if I leave off the apostrophe at the end. But when the apostrophe occurs at the beginning of a word, as in Three O'Clock Blues (which gets changed to Three O'clock Blues after capitalization), I am a loss. I try this:

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$replace(%title%,O'clock,O'Clock)


But it doesn't work.

Need some help with a Masstagger script

Reply #1 –
Try using the '' (these are two ' characters) for a single '.

Need some help with a Masstagger script

Reply #2 –
Thanks.

I don't know why that worked... but it worked!
 

Need some help with a Masstagger script

Reply #3 –
It worked because "Help > Title formatting help" says
Quote
' (single quotation mark) -- (..) In order to insert a quotation mark character, use '' (two single quotation marks).
Full-quoting makes you scroll past the same junk over and over.