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In article <C1EzDw.FtF@austin.ibm.com> tbates@austin.ibm.com (Tom Bates) writes:

   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]

   The advantage to using [:upper:] and [:lower:] instead of [A-Z] and [a-z] is
   locale support.  Not everyone uses ASCII and US English.

here's a shocker: not all tr's have that notation.  must be an IBMism :-)
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