* capitalisation
@ 1994-05-19 15:55 Steve_Kilbane
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From: Steve_Kilbane @ 1994-05-19 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sam-fans
> yes, i made a mistake transcribing the command. the comma
> should be a semicolon. how you got all capital letters in your
> version, though, i don't understand.
well, that's what happens. I 'new' a window, type 'this is a test line\n'
into it, and then do ",x/[a-z]+/-#0,+#1|tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'", and i get
a whole line capitalised ('scuse the SVR4 tr...)
>
> ,x/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/ -#0;+#1 | tr a-z A-Z
>
now, this *does* work, and definitely worth remembering....
steve
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* Re: capitalisation
@ 1994-05-19 17:57 pete
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From: pete @ 1994-05-19 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: andrew, sam-fans, steve
> actually it only works for a and z. For all letters try...
Depends upon how broken your version of `tr' is. Sensible ones recognise a-z
as a character class.... daft ones don't.
pete
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* Re: capitalisation
@ 1994-05-19 17:54 Steve_Kilbane
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From: Steve_Kilbane @ 1994-05-19 17:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sam-fans
> actually it only works for a and z. For all letters try...
>
> ,x/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/ -#0;+#1 | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
this depends on which version of unix you're using (or whether you're using
plan 9, i guess - does it have tr?) - but that's just details in tr itself;
the important thing is the sam command that feeds it.
steve
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* Re: capitalisation
@ 1994-05-19 15:24 Andrew Higham
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From: Andrew Higham @ 1994-05-19 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steve_Kilbane, sam-fans
> >
> > ,x/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/ -#0;+#1 | tr a-z A-Z
> >
>
> now, this *does* work, and definitely worth remembering....
actually it only works for a and z. For all letters try...
,x/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/ -#0;+#1 | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
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