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Article #18Re: tolower() function?
From: Ed Wright
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:33
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:33
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In article <1993Jan22.012739.26965@chpc.utexas.edu> rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu (Radey Shouman) writes:
>In article <C184vr.p5q@austin.ibm.com> tbates@austin.ibm.com (Tom Bates)
>writes:
>
>>Quoting "The AWK Programming Language",
>>
>> "The cleanest way to do case conversion in awk is with an array that
>>maps each letter...it's better to use...tr"
>>
>>I often use tr for this very reason. For example:
>>
>> echo "HeLlO, wOrLd!" | tr [:upper:] [:lower]
try | tr [A-Z] [a-z]
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psgrain!m2xenix!edw From: edw@psg.com (Ed Wright) Subject: Re: tolower() function? Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:33:40 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan24.093340.17437@psg.com> References: <EMCOOP.93Jan19111755@bcars148.bnr.ca> <C184vr.p5q@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan22.012739.26965@chpc.utexas.edu> Lines: 18