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Old 12-02-2009
Handling multiple fields of a database file for toupper() function in awk

hello everyone....

script is: To convert the contents of a database file into uppercase

my code is:
printf "%s\n" , $2 | awk '{print toupper($2)}' emp.lst

i m able to do only for one field.....didn't get any sources for handling multiple fields.

please suggest me for multiple fields...

Thanks in advance.
 

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TOUPPER(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						TOUPPER(3)

NAME
toupper -- lower case to upper case letter conversion LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h> int toupper(int c); DESCRIPTION
The toupper() function converts a lower-case letter to the corresponding upper-case letter. RETURN VALUES
If the argument is a lower-case letter, the toupper() function returns the corresponding upper-case letter if there is one; otherwise the argument is returned unchanged. SEE ALSO
ctype(3), isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3), isxdigit(3), stdio(3), toascii(3), ascii(7) STANDARDS
The toupper() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89''). CAVEATS
The argument to toupper() must be EOF or representable as an unsigned char; otherwise, the behavior is undefined. See the CAVEATS section of ctype(3) for more details. BSD
April 17, 2008 BSD
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