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Article #19Re: tolower() function?
From: Tom Bates
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:39
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:39
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In article <1993Jan24.093340.17437@psg.com>, edw@psg.com (Ed Wright) writes: > 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] > -- > REAL RADIOS edw@m2xenix.psg.com GLOW IN THE DARK > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<<^^>>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>No Voice>>>>>> Amateur Radio KA9AHQ @ 28.340 <<<<<<<No Vice<< > >>> Kshatriya Auscultating 9 Ailurophiles Hypothesizing Quodlibets <<< The advantage to using [:upper:] and [:lower:] instead of [A-Z] and [a-z] is locale support. Not everyone uses ASCII and US English. Sincerely, Tom -- Tom Bates IBM Austin
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Newsgroups: alt.lang.awk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!tbates From: tbates@austin.ibm.com (Tom Bates) Subject: Re: tolower() function? Originator: tbates@rama.austin.ibm.com Message-ID: <C1EzDw.FtF@austin.ibm.com> Sender: tbates@austin.ibm.com () Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:39:32 GMT References: <EMCOOP.93Jan19111755@bcars148.bnr.ca> <C184vr.p5q@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan22.012739.26965@chpc.utexas.edu> <1993Jan24.093340.17437@psg.com> Organization: IBM Austin Lines: 32