I want to take input from <STDIN> and then convert it to lowercase. so I tried this:
lc(chomp($input = <STDIN>))); and I got an error message that said I couldn't use lc in that way - or something like that. I can't remember the message now. then I tried this: lc($input); and I got the same error. Then I checked my copy of Learning Perl and the index pointed me to an example of lower case, but it was a regex example, not a function. So I thought that perhaps I had confused two different languages and that Perl didn't have a lowercase function. Just now I checked the man pages to see if I really was not remembering the function for lowercase. When I went there, sure enough, lc was there. http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/lc.html The way it is described makes me think that I am using it correctly, but Perl is telling me different. So, am I using it incorrectly? Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
