Capitalize variable

bawpie

Hello, I've tried checking the wiki and the google group, but no joy.  Basically, I'd like to know if there's an easy way of capitalising a variable, so that when it prints it prints with the first letter capitalised.  For instance, if I have a variable called $colour which is set to 'blue', but I want to print it at the beginning of a sentence it would show as 'Blue'.  I understand this can be done in javascript or CSS, but was wondering if there was a way to do it via the inbuilt syntax?  If not, could anyone point me in the direction of a scripted version?

Thanks

Edit:  Hmm, think I managed to figure it out in the end, but will post here in case there is a better way of doing it (or in case anyone else is interested).

<<print $colour [0].toUpperCase() + $colour .slice(1)>>


seems to do the trick!