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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Convert text between exact matching patterns to Title case Post 302966328 by martinsmith on Wednesday 10th of February 2016 09:52:12 PM
Old 02-10-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia

Please, give it a try:

Code:
perl -ple '/title=">PATTERN1\s+(.*?)\s+PATTERN2/ and $s=$1 and s|$s|join " ", (map {ucfirst} split /\s/, $s)|e' patterns.file

[CODE]
Hi Aia, It works perfectly as i was hoping for! Thank you very much for this solution. Smilie
 

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