i've tried that and got no joy
it's because the $string is a system command!
my $string = system("date '+%b'");
$string = uc $string;
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From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:japhy@;perlmonk.org]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 14:56
To: Musto,J,Jonathan,IVYD3 C
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Subject: Re: Easy one
On Oct 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>How do a convert a string $string into uppercase??
perldoc -f uc
$big = uc $little;
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