Hi, I don't know what I am doing wrong to the toupper does not seem working in sub + regex. The following returns 's' not the upper class 'S' as I expect: sub("q_([a-z])[a-zA-Z]*",toupper('\\1'),"q_sviRaw") Can someone tell me where I did wrong? Thanks, Richard
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