On Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:04:54 -0500, you wrote: >I'm trying to change words that are in all upercase to upper and lower. >And i can't 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. I've noticed a lot of solutions to this problem already, but none looks as simple as mine. So here goes: s/(\w+)/\u\L$1/g; That's it. Bart. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch