Re: [MacPerl] Change "WORD" to "Word"

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

Note: my example uc()'d the first letter of every word.  This example does
what Ramesh's example does.  It only does the substituion if the first
letter is capitalized, as Ramesh has.

$x = "Some teams like L.A. LAKERS, PHILADELPHIA, and SAN ANTONIO for the
purpose of this exercise.\n";
$x =~ s/\b([A-Z]\w+)\b/ucfirst(lc($1))/ge;
print $x,"\n";

--Chris

At 22.06 1/6/98, Ramesh R. wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>>I'm trying to change words that are in all upercase to upper and lower.
>>And i can'rt seem to come up with a logical way to achieve this.
>>
>>Here's my problem... I'm writing a script for our sports section to
>>process the NBA boxscores for publication.
>>
>>Far too often AP sends words in the file in all uppercase and we change
>>them. For example: L.A. LAKERS, PHILADELPHIA, SAN ANTONIO. Iturned
>>everythig to lowercase with "tr" But now I can't seem to come up with a
>>search that will only change the first letter of a word.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>Basically this is a Perl question, and being a Perl newbie, here's my try.
>Please feel free to comment, as I'm trying to learn as much as possible.
>
>#!perl
>use strict;
>
>my $Test_string = "Some teams like L.A. LAKERS, PHILADELPHIA, and SAN
>ANTONIO for the purpose of this exercise.\n";
>
># Split the sentence into individual words.
>my @Atoms = split " ", $Test_string;
>
>my @String;
>my $Buffer;
>
>foreach (@Atoms)
>{
>        # This checks for words that begin with a cap, followed by
>        # one or more caps, and probably a punctuation mark.
>        if (m/(^[A-Z])([A-Z]+)(\W?)/)
>        {
>                # Grab the part of the word in caps,
>                # but not the first letter.
>                $Buffer = $2;
>
>                # Convert that part to lowercase.
>                $Buffer =~ tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/;
>
>                # Build the string back together again.
>                push @String, $1 . $Buffer . $3;
>        }
>        else
>        {
>                push @String, $_;
>        }
>}
>
>print join (" ", @String);
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>Best regards,
>Ramesh
>
>
>
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