José nyimi wrote:
>
> Hello All,
Hello,
> The Perl slogan is: "There Is More Than One Way To Do It".
>
> I'm interested to see how you will do the small convertion below.
>
> Here is one of mine: probably not the best one :-).
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> my $out=&convert('abCdE');
> print "$out\n";
>
> sub convert {
> my($in)=@_;
> $in=~/(.)(.*)/;
> $in=uc($1).lc($2);
You should _never_ use the numeric scalars $1, $2, etc. without testing
that the regular expression was successful.
$ perl -le'
$_ = q(abCdE);
/(.)(.*)/; print "$1 $2";
$_ = "\n";
/(.)(.*)/; print "$1 $2";
'
a bCdE
a bCdE
> return $in;
> }
>
> The task is simply to upercase the first char of a given string and lowercase the
>rest.
my $out = 'abCdE';
$out = "\u\L$out";
John
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