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Old 05-25-2012
Comma delimited file manipulation
Question about how to change the first & last name in column one & two so that the names have a capital letter for just the first letter. Example:

Code:
asdf@asdf.com,asdf,asdfasdf,176.23.22.345,4/12/2012

changed to:

Code:
asdf@asdf.com,Asdf,Asdfasdf,176.23.22.345,4/12/2012

Thank you kindly,

Nick
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-25-2012 at 12:55 PM.. Reason: code tags spelling
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Old 05-25-2012
Code:
echo "asdf@asdf.com,asdf,asdfasdf,176.23.22.345,4/12/2012" | \
perl -F, -lane '$F[1]=~s/(\w)/\u$1/; $F[2]=~s/(\w)/\u$1/;print join (",",@F)'

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Old 05-26-2012
Code:
echo 'asdf@asdf.com,asdf,asdfasdf,176.23.22.345,4/12/2012' | perl -pe 's/^(.*?),(\w+),(\w+),/$1,\u$2,\u$3,/'

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