print "e.g. program.pl \n";
}
Hopefully it may be of some use to somebody else starting out and stumbling in this
area.
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> From: Ged <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/07/24 Thu AM 08:47:23 GMT
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Re: modifing and
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> Subject: Re: modifing and writing to a file
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> NYIMI Jose (BMB) wrote:
>
> >s/a-z/A-Z/g should be s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g;
> >
>
> Character classes are only possible in the matching part of the regex,
> not in the replacement part. You regex says substit
NYIMI Jose (BMB) wrote:
s/a-z/A-Z/g should be s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g;
Character classes are only possible in the matching part of the regex,
not in the replacement part. You regex says substitute all occurences of
a lowercase alphabet with the string '[A-Z]'
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s/a-z/A-Z/g should be s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g;
You also use uc function like this :
print BACKUP uc "$_";
#or
#print BACKUP uc ;
C:\>perldoc -f uc
uc EXPR
uc Returns an uppercased version of EXPR. This is the internal
function implementing the "\U" escape in double-quoted
string
Ged wrote at Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:00:04 +:
> I am very new to perl (2 days) but am finding it very rewarding. I have however
> stumbled across a problem hopefully somebody can help me with.
>
> I am trying to open a file, change the text from lowercase to uppercase and rewrite
> it to a back
if you are new to perl try
perl -e "print uc($_) while (<>);" c:/ged/perl files/stuff.txt > c:/ged/perl
files/stuff.bk
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From: Ged [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: modifing and writing to a file
Hi all,
I a
