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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:41:48 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] sed question (OT)
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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