[calimehtar]

I've got some text in a very predictable formation - like "THIS AFTERNOON" - all-caps, one or two words, no punctuation. And I want to transform it to "This Afternoon". I found a way to transform it to all lowercase using vim syntax:

Code:
1,$s/\(\u\+\)/\L&/g

or to transform the first letter to uppercase:

Code:
1,$s/\(\l\+\)/\u&/g

But I can't think how to make the first letter uppercase and all following letters lowercase. A link to a good reference is an exceptable substitute for an answer. Also I do have access to perl regular expressions if I need them.

[qyn]

You really want the 'tr' command. I don't know of a good reference besides 'man tr'

But I would recommend using perl:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Get the string in somehow
$in_string = "THIS AFTERNOON";

$out_string = join(" ", map{ ucfirst(lc($_)) } split(/\s/, $in_string));

print $out_string;

That's a very simplistic example (and probably handles the spaces wrong), but the key is running ucfirst(lc()) on each word.

[Kristoff]

Uh...is this a joke?

You have the answer right there in your own question

Apply those sequentially and your text is just how you want it.

[nfuria]

This line will work in Perls:

Code:
	s/(\w)(\w+)/\u$1\L$2\E/g;

Furia

Originally posted by calimehtar:
I've got some text in a very predictable formation - like "THIS AFTERNOON" - all-caps, one or two words, no punctuation. And I want to transform it to "This Afternoon". I found a way to transform it to all lowercase using vim syntax:

Code:
1,$s/\(\u\+\)/\L&/g

or to transform the first letter to uppercase:

Code:
1,$s/\(\l\+\)/\u&/g

But I can't think how to make the first letter uppercase and all following letters lowercase. A link to a good reference is an exceptable substitute for an answer. Also I do have access to perl regular expressions if I need them.

[calimehtar]

No, this isn't a joke. The problem, I should have explained, is I'm not working on the command line, I'm working in a very restrictive proprietary template-style web development environment. I don't know of a way to send two instructions at a single string except by nesting templates or something like and I was hoping for a single regex command that would do what I need. I do have access to Perl, but it's also in a very limited way. I'm going to have to ask around the office a bit, it's not obvious how I'd actually be able to apply any of your suggestions in this environment.

Thanks for the tips, regardless.

[calimehtar]

Oops, looks like nfuria was posting as I was talking. That looks like it just might work.