On 03/08/13 03:37 PM, Alex Xu wrote:
> On 03/08/13 02:29 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> Dnia 2013-08-03, o godz. 17:54:42
>> Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 3 Aug 2013, Michał Górny wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2. The eclass comes with a pure bash-3.2 CamelCase converter for
>>>> changing PNs like 'twisted-foo' into 'TwistedFoo'. The relevant code
>>>> can be moved to eutils as portable replacements for bash-4 ${foo^}
>>>> and friends.
>>>
>>>> # obtain octal ASCII code for the first letter.
>>>> local ord=$(printf '%o' "'${fl}")
>>>>
>>>> # check if it's [a-z]. ASCII codes are locale-safe.
>>>> if [[ ${ord} -ge 141 && ${ord} -le 172 ]]; then
>>>> # now substract 040 to make it upper-case.
>>>> # fun fact: in range 0141..0172, decimal '- 40' is fine.
>>>> local ord=$(( ${ord} - 40))
>>>> # and convert it back to the character.
>>>> fl=$(printf '\'${ord})
>>>> fi
>>>
>>> This looks just horrible. You do decimal arithmetic on octal numbers?
>>
>> Yes. Bash wasn't really happy to do octal arithmetic for me. Yet
>> in this particular case, with proper assumptions, decimal arithmetic is
>> practically equivalent.
>>
>
> # obtain decimal ASCII code for the first letter.
> local fl=$(printf '%d' "'${w}")
>
> # check if it's [a-z]. ASCII codes are locale-safe.
> if [[ ${ord} -ge 97 && ${ord} -le 122 ]]; then
> local ord=$(( ${ord} - 32 ))
> # and convert it back to the character.
> fl=$(printf '\'${ord})
> fi
>
> echo -n "${fl}${w:1}"
>
> Probably var names should be adjusted, I'm not too familiar with bash
> locals.
>
> printf '%d' "'twisted" outputs "116" as expected, similar to
> printf("%d", *"asdf qwerty") in C.
>
> Tested in Bash 4.2.45.
>
> Now time to sit back and wait for it to break in bash
> <obscure-version-here>.
> I am dumb. Please disregard the previous message.
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