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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:06:40 +0000
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From: Lorenzo Bolla <lbolla@gmail.com>
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To capitalize the first letter of each line wouldn't this be enough?

s/^./\u&/

L.


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> Sorry, not really the place for such questions but...
>
> I always struggle with sed, awk is easy but sed makes my head hurt.
>
> I am trying to capitalise the first tow words on each line (I could use awk
> as well but I have to use sed so it seems churlish to start another
> process).
>
> capitalising the first word on the line is easy enough:
>
>                        h
>                        s/^(.).*/\1/
>
>  y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/
>                        x
>                        s/^.(.*)/\1/
>                        x
>                        G
>                        s/\n//
>
> Though there maye be a much easier/more elegant way to do this,
> but for the 2nd word it gets much harder.
>
> What I really want is sam's ability to select a letter and operate on it
> rather than everything being line based as sed seems to be.
>
> any neat solutions? (extra points awarded for use of the branch operator
> :-)
>
> -Steve
>
>

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To capitalize the first letter of each line wouldn&#39;t this be enough?<di=
v><br><div>s/^./\u&amp;/<br><br></div><div>L.</div><div><br></div><div><br>=
<div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Steve Simon <sp=
an dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:steve@quintile.net">steve@quintile.net=
</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Sorry, not really the place for such questi=
ons but...<br>
<br>
I always struggle with sed, awk is easy but sed makes my head hurt.<br>
<br>
I am trying to capitalise the first tow words on each line (I could use awk=
<br>
as well but I have to use sed so it seems churlish to start another process=
).<br>
<br>
capitalising the first word on the line is easy enough:<br>
<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0h<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0s/^(.).*/\1/<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy=
z/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0x<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0s/^.(.*)/\1/<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0x<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0G<br>
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0s/\n//<br>
<br>
Though there maye be a much easier/more elegant way to do this,<br>
but for the 2nd word it gets much harder.<br>
<br>
What I really want is sam&#39;s ability to select a letter and operate on i=
t<br>
rather than everything being line based as sed seems to be.<br>
<br>
any neat solutions? (extra points awarded for use of the branch operator :-=
)<br>
<font color=3D"#888888"><br>
-Steve<br>
<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br></div></div>

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