Re: uppercase/lowercase in a single expression

You need the uc (upercase) and lc (lowercase) functions, and a conditional statement such as "if".

This smells a bit like homework, so I'll leave you to work the rest out for yourself.

Update: actually, you're probably better off with the transliteration operator (tr). This one didn't occur to me straight off as I rarely use it myself. See perlop for details. Also, if you want to edit the file without opening it, then you'll be interested in the 'i' and 'p' command line switches - see perlrun for details on these.

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Re^2: uppercase/lowercase in a single expression by greatshots (Pilgrim) on Sep 07, 2006 at 06:33 UTC
McDarren `$line1 = 'asdadAADSAsdfsfASASDjljsdASDAS'; $line2 = 'GKHSKJADHasdadhkadhGHKJHKJHasdada';` [download] do you mean to say that should I need traverse each character and change it to upper/lower ?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: uppercase/lowercase in a single expression by McDarren (Abbot) on Sep 07, 2006 at 06:40 UTC
Well, that's exactly what tr does. Example: `perl -le '$line1 = "asdadAADSAsdfsfASASDjljsdASDAS"; $line1 =~ tr/[A-Z +a-z]/[a-zA-Z]/;print $line1;'` [download] Prints: `ASDADaadsaSDFSFasasdJLJSDasdas` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: uppercase/lowercase in a single expression by davido (Cardinal) on Sep 07, 2006 at 07:10 UTC
Transliteration doesn't use character classes. You don't need `[` and `]`, unless you actually intend to also transliterate those square bracket characters. What's needed is: `$line1 =~ tr/A-Za-z/a-zA-Z/` [download] ...assuming you're not dealing with some funky character set. Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: uppercase/lowercase in a single expression by McDarren (Abbot) on Sep 07, 2006 at 07:15 UTC
Re^3: uppercase/lowercase in a single expression by greatshots (Pilgrim) on Sep 07, 2006 at 07:31 UTC
thanks a lot.	[reply]


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