On 15 Jul 2003 at 2:58pm (-0600), Eric Sisler wrote: > Ok, I'm tired of banging my head against this one. I know there must be > a simple perl, sed or tr solution, but I can't seem to find it. I'm > cleaning up some extracted data and the one annoying thing I have left > is a single quote followed by a capital letter, which I want to change > to lowercase like so: > > Can'T --> Can't > Santa'S --> Santa's > > and so on. >
How 'bout something like... [EMAIL PROTECTED] matthewm]$ cat in Can'T --> Can't Santa'S --> Santa's [EMAIL PROTECTED] matthewm]$ cat in | perl -p -e "s/(\'[A-Z])/lc(\$1)/e" Can't --> Can't Santa's --> Santa's [EMAIL PROTECTED] matthewm]$ M. -- WebCentral Pty Ltd Australia's #1 Internet Web Hosting Company Level 5, 100 Wickham St. Network Operations - Systems Engineer PO Box 930, Fortitude Valley. phone: +61 7 3249 2552 Queensland, Australia 4006. pgp key id: 0x900E515F -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
