Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:39:38 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A "title case" script Message-ID: <20000326193938.X86036@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000326125654.A77405@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> References: <20000326125654.A77405@oitunix.oit.umass.edu>
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Greg Pavelcak wrote: > When I get information from the University database, it's all > caps. Usually we use this info for mass mailings, so we want > proper capitalization. MSWord's "title case" feature gets it > almost right. I was wondering if anyone has an awk or perl or > something script that can do this job. try filtering it though, perl -pe 'tr/A-Z/a-z/; s/\b([a-z])/uc $1/eg' that's hardly tested, but it seems to work. This may be too simple for what you want, but it's a start. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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