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This portion defines the script taxaReformat
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<script language="JavaScript"><!--
/* ======================================================================
FUNCTION:	taxaReformat
 
INPUT:		str (string): the string to be encoded

RETURN:  	URL-encoded version of str;
				returns null if invalid arguments were passed

DESC:		(Old: This function augments the default JavaScript/JScript unescape 
				function.  unescape does not handle literal '+' characters embedded 
				in URLs.  This function pre-processes a URL-encoded string by 
				converting all ' ' characters to '+', and then calls unescape to
				complete the encode process.)

		This function replaces the formatting of strings from CollectionVIMSConcept or SeedVIMSConcepts
		with standard taxonomic formatting. It converts all '-' characters to ' ' and 
		capitalizes the first letter.
====================================================================== */
function taxaReformat ( str ) 
{
	var resultStr = "";

	// Return immediately if an invalid value was passed in
	if (str+"" == "undefined" || str == null)	
		return null;

	// Make sure the argument is a string
	str += "";
	
	// Make first letter upper case
   var upStr = str.charAt(0);
   resultStr = upStr.toUpperCase();

	// Loop through each char in string and replace '-' with ' '
	for (var i = 1; i < str.length; i++) {
		if (str.charAt(i) == "-")
			resultStr += " ";
		else
			resultStr += str.charAt(i);
	}
	
	return unescape(resultStr);
}  // END taxaReformat
// -->


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This portion calls the script taxaReformat
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<script language="JavaScript">

document.write(taxaReformat("<%CollectionVIMSConcept%>"))


</script>