[comp.unix.questions] substitue in vi

mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) (08/17/89)

Thanks to all who took the time to answer my question:
>How can i do the following:
>	for every word (word as far as vi is concerned) in a file, 
>	capitalize the first letter
>

I received quite a few answers.  All answers but one, were variations on:
:%s/\<[a-z]/\u&/g

which is what I used. This worked exactly as I asked (even as I intended - i.e.
only change the letter if it is lower-case already). 

The only answer NOT of this form was one that used awk. Although this needs to
be expanded for the entire alphabet the author DID tell me this:
	awk 'BEGIN {
		upper = "ABCDEF";
		lower = "abcdef";
	}
	{
		out = "";
		for (i=1; i <= length($4);i++) {
			if ((cpos = index(lower,c = substr($4,i,1))) > 0 )
				c = substr(upper,cpos,1);
			out = out c;
		}
		printf("%s %s %s %s\n",$1, $2, $3, out);
	}'

Thanks again to all who answered.

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