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From: psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Lower->Upper in AWK (was: Re: cascading pipes in awk)
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <819@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 25 May 89 19:33:23 GMT
References: <818@manta.NOSC.MIL> <13921@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: psm@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Scot Mcintosh)
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In article <13921@lanl.gov> dph@lanl.gov (David Huelsbeck) writes:
>
>Here is my solution to this problem along with a summary of solutions
>I recieved from other awkers when I posted asking for a better way.
>  <<a number of upper-case conversion programs>>

Here's my brute-force solution to add to the pile:
#where s is the argument being converted
gsub(/a/,"A",s);
gsub(/b/,"B",s);
   etc

Inefficient and inelegant, but at least it works.