thanks to all for your suggestions. Adriano had exactly what i was looking for:
$address =~ s/(\w)(\w*)/\u$1\L$2/g; works like a charm. i should have left out the periods and uppercase state abbreviations, i'm sure that didn't help clarify what i wanted. thanks again. On 2/26/07, Adriano Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/26/07, jm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a function, module, script, etc. that converts all uppercase to > proper mixed case. this particular need is for an address list that is all > uppercase Doing it blindly, can be easily achieved with regexes: $address =~ s/(\w)(\w*)/\u$1\L$2/g; which applied over each line of > 1370 W 14TH ST > ADA,OK > 74837 results in 1370 W 14th St Ada,Ok 74837 which is not perfect, because it is pretty dumb as I said. To do a better job, you need to sophisticate the recognition of the address pieces and then apply s/(\w)(\w+)/\u$1/\L$2/ selectively to the parts (plus your extra tidyings like a trailing dot and extra spaces). Note. Converting a word into first letter in upper case and the remaining in lower case, can also be done with s/(\w+)/\L\u$1/ > 1370 W. 14th St. > Ada, OK > 74837 > > thanks for any help, > joe > > -- > since this is a gmail account, please verify the mailing list is included in > the reply to addresses >
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