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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl bug (was: Capitalizing words in a line.)
Message-ID: <11457@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 15 Feb 91 20:27:28 GMT
References: <MARVIT.91Feb13190935@hplpm.hpl.hp.com> <4861@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <1991Feb15.153133.8849@convex.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Feb15.153133.8849@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
: But perl doesn't support \l, \u, \L, \U, and \E.  I think it would make
: things like this a lot easier, and probably more efficient as well.

But it will.  And yes, they'll be more efficient.  Mostly I'm putting them
in because people will expect them to be there.

Incidentally, I think Perl will do a better job than vi: you'll be able to
say \u\L$& to force both initial cap and subsequent lowercase.

Larry