From: Ruby Student <ruby.student@...>
Date: 2008-10-22T04:29:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with regular expression

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Evgeniy Dolzhenko wrote:
>
> > /\b[A-Z]+$/
> > will match if last word in string is not 100% upppercase
> s/not//
>
> If you convert a string to uppercase, and it already is all uppercase,
> then it will be unchanged....  I'd use awk if a dependence on ruby is
> not allowed, and no regexp needed.
> >
> > 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
> > >
> >
>
>
Thanks to everyone for your help!

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Ruby Student

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