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From: merlyn@agora.UUCP (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Lower->Upper in AWK (was: Re: cascading pipes in awk)
Summary: get Perl!
Message-ID: <1496@agora.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 89 21:47:10 GMT
References: <818@manta.NOSC.MIL> <13921@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: merlyn@.UUCP (Randal L. Schwartz)
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Organization: Organization?  You've got to be kidding!
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In article <13921@lanl.gov> dph@lanl.gov (David Huelsbeck) writes:
| From article <818@manta.NOSC.MIL>, by psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh):
| > 
| > Unfortunately, I only want to uppercase a few selected portions of the
| > text my awk program is reading (my original posting contained a
| > very simplified example, so this wasn't obvious). There just doesn't
| > seem to be a way to have a filter program in the middle of two groups
| > of awk statements.
| 
| I afraid your right.  Perhaps nawk or gawk would help you but I
| really don't know enough about either one to say.  However, you 
| can, somewhat painfully, translate lower to upper or rot13 or
| whatever in plain old awk. 
| 
| 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.
| Sorry for the length but I felt that every different solution showed
| a unique and interesting approach that might be useful in solving other
| sorts of problems in awk.

[solution deleted]

Just get Perl.  It is great for this, and best of all, it's free!

For example, to make variable "$foo" uppercase:

    $foo =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;

Just another Perl hacker (thanks Larry!)...
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