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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting HOWTO - change letter case of variable value Post 302427895 by presul on Tuesday 8th of June 2010 08:13:37 AM

06-08-2010

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I used advice from jim mcnamara, so :

Code:

echo "$var" | tr -s '[:lower:]'  '[:upper:]' | read tmp
var=$tmp

But when I call function which uses this mechanism I get such error :
./filterEngine.ksh[11]: February: not found

# cat filterEngine.ksh

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
################# Funtion monthGrep() #####################
   494  monthGrep()
   495  {
   496  echo "$Month" | tr -s '[:lower:]'  '[:upper:]' | read tmp
   497  Month="$tmp"
   498  print $Month
   499
   500  case $Month in
   501          STYCZEN)
   502                 `print January`
   503                  ;;
   504          LUTY)
   505                  `print "February"`
   506                  ;;
   507          MARZEC)
   508                  `print March`
   509                  ;;
   510          KWIECIEN)
   511                  `print April`
   512                  ;;
   513          MAJ)
   514                  `print May`
   515                  ;;
   516          CZERWIEC)
   517                  `print June`
   518                  ;;
   519          LIPIEC)
   520                  `print July`
   521                  ;;
   522          SIERPIEN)
   523                  `print August`
   524                  ;;
   525          WRZESIEN)
   526                  `print Septemebr`
   527                  ;;
   528          PAZDZIERNIK)
   529                  `print October`
   530                  ;;
   531          LISTOPAD)
   532                  `print November`
   533                  ;;
   534          GRUDZIEN)
   535                  `print December`
   536                  ;;
   537          *)
   538                  `print /dev/null`
   539                  ;;
   540  esac
}
#############################################################
print -n " What is the name of the month? "
read Month

monthGrep `print $Month`

thx for help

presul

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wconv

wconv(3C)																 wconv(3C)

NAME

       towupper(), towlower() - translate wide characters

SYNOPSIS

   Remarks:
       These  functions  are compliant with the XPG4 Worldwide Portability Interface wide-character conversion functions.  They parallel the 8-bit
       character conversion functions defined in conv(3C).

DESCRIPTION

       and have as domain a the value of which is representable as a or the value If the argument has any other value, the behavior is	undefined.
       If  the	argument  of  represents  a  lowercase letter, the result is the corresponding uppercase letter.  If the argument of represents an
       uppercase letter, the result is the corresponding lowercase letter.  All other arguments are returned unchanged.

       Definitions for these functions, the types and the value are provided in the header.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   Locale
       The category determines the translations to be done.

   International Code Set Support
       Single-byte and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

AUTHOR

       was developed by IBM, OSF, and HP.

SEE ALSO

       conv(3C), multibyte(3C), wctype(3C), setlocale(3C), lang(5), thread_safety(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																	 wconv(3C)

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