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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
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Subject: Re: need AWK help: lowercase, trim trailing spaces
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Date: 21 Apr 91 18:55:46 GMT
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merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes (in response to my
objection that his Perl code didn't do what's expected):
>
>Yes.  That's exactly what came out.  If it didn't come out on *your*
>Perl, you have an old Perl.  (I used the new \u\L operators, if that's
>what you're objecting to.)

Understood.  I tried it out on perl 3.0 pl 18.  I wouldn't call perl
3.0 an "old" perl by any stretch of the imagination, especially since
4.0 just finished coming over the net a couple of days ago!

-Richard
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   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer