ahhh, thanks. Yes, that makes sense now.

after reading up on the 'uc' function, I have now got my program to work as required.

Thanks to all for their input.

Ged.

> 
> From: Sudarshan Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/07/24 Thu AM 08:43:55 GMT
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: modifing and writing to a file
> 
> NYIMI Jose (BMB) wrote:
> 
> >s/a-z/A-Z/g should be s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g;
> >
> 
> Character classes are only possible in the matching part of the regex, 
> not in the replacement part. You regex says substitute all occurences of 
> a lowercase alphabet with the string '[A-Z]'
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 

-----------------------------------------
Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/



-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to