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Subject: First character of selected space
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Date:	Wed, 18 May 1994 11:43:30 -0400

I have a set of C identifiers for which I would like to make the first
letter capital, through a pipe to tr.  The problem is selecting the
first character from the currently selected text, so I can pipe on it.
As an example, I want to take

id1, xl2,
rs4, a

and turn them into 

Id1, Il2,
Is4, A


Is there a way to select the first character of each identifier so I
can pipe it to tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"?

Thanks,

Beirne


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