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Date:      Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:07:11 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A "title case" script
Message-ID:  <38DE8A0F.8CD9EF36@gorean.org>
References:  <20000326125654.A77405@oitunix.oit.umass.edu>

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Greg Pavelcak wrote:
> 
> When I get information from the University database, it's all
> caps. Usually we use this info for mass mailings, so we want
> proper capitalization. MSWord's "title case" feature gets it
> almost right. I was wondering if anyone has an awk or perl or
> something script that can do this job.
> 
> I know about awk's toupper() and tolower(), but I haven't gotten
> it to work right yet.

	Does it have to be awk? Assuming that what you want is the first letter
capitalized, you can just do,

$string = ucfirst lc $string;

Good luck,

Doug
-- 
    "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into
existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously.
    The master simply replied, "Mu."


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