From: Evgeniy Dolzhenko <dolzenko@...>
Date: 2008-10-22T03:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with regular expression

/\b[A-Z]+$/
will match if last word in string is not 100% upppercase

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Ruby Student <ruby.student@gmail.com> wrote:
> Team,
> A colleague asked me if I could write a script to:
>
> Read a text file where each record has two words.
> If the second word in the record is not 100% uppercase, write it to a file
> and convert it to uppercase.
> I wrote it in Ruby in about 5 lines using IO.foreach("/tmp/somefile.txt") do
> |file| for the input file and fo = File.open("/tmp/somefile.out","a+") for
> the output file, upcase method.
> Then she threw a curve ball at me telling me that she wanted it in Korn
> Shell using regular expression.
> The facts are that I don't know how to do this using regular expressions.
> I am not asking anyone to solve for me, but if you can tell me:
>
> How do you compare, using regular expression, the second word in the input
> record for upper case. In other words, if the second word has at least 1
> lower-case char, it has to be flagged and translated to upper-case.
>
> I will deal with the I/O issues in Korn Shell.
>
> Thank you
> --
> Ruby Student
>