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Re: Perl question
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Date: 
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:13:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy Sproat writes:
Try this:

$string = lc $string;

Doh! I had no idea there was a function to do it already!

DaveE



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  Re: Perl question
 
(...) Try this: $string = lc $string; Alternatively, I think this will work also: $string =~ tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/; But if you *REALLY* want to make it look impressive (to a 1st-year programmer anyway :-), you could do: @upchars = qw( A B C D E F G H I J (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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