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- From: tbates@austin.ibm.com (Tom Bates)
- Subject: Re: tolower() function?
- Originator: tbates@rama.austin.ibm.com
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:39:32 GMT
- References: <EMCOOP.93Jan19111755@bcars148.bnr.ca> <C184vr.p5q@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan22.012739.26965@chpc.utexas.edu> <1993Jan24.093340.17437@psg.com>
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- 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]
- > --
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- The advantage to using [:upper:] and [:lower:] instead of [A-Z] and [a-z] is
- locale support. Not everyone uses ASCII and US English.
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- Sincerely,
- Tom
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- Tom Bates
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- IBM Austin
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