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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting regular expression help Post 64269 by mac2118 on Monday 28th of February 2005 06:47:13 PM
Old 02-28-2005
regular expression help

hello all.. I'm a bit new to this site.. and I hope to learn alot.. but I've been having a hard time figuring this out. I'm horrible with regular expressions.. so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a file with a list of names like this: LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, MIDDLEINITIAL

how can I write a script to have the it: Firstname, Middleinitial, Lastname ?

I have around 30ish names. The first letter needs to be capitalized and the rest lowercase.. I've been having a horrible time trying to figure this out.. I would really appreciate some help with this.
 

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CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp(3pm)

NAME
CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp - Dispatch requests to CGI::Application based objects using regular expressions SYNOPSIS
use CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp; CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp->dispatch( prefix => 'MyApp', table => [ '' => { app => 'Welcome', rm => 'start' }, qr|/([^/]+)/?| => { names => ['app'] }, qr|/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?| => { names => [qw(app rm)] }, qr|/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page(d+).html?| => { names => [qw(app rm page)] }, ], ); DESCRIPTION
CGI::Application::Dispatch uses its own syntax dispatch table. "CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp" allows one to use flexible and powerful Perl regular expressions to transform a path into argument list. DISPATCH TABLE
The dispatch table should contain list of regular expressions with hashref of corresponding parameters. Hash element 'names' is a list of names of regular expression groups. The default table looks like this: table => [ qr|/([^/]+)/?| => { names => ['app'] }, qr|/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?| => { names => [qw(app rm)] }, ], Here's an example of defining a custom 'page' parameter: qr|/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page(d+).html/?| => { names => [qw(app rm page)] }, COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright Michael Peters and Mark Stosberg 2008, all rights reserved. SEE ALSO
CGI::Application, CGI::Application::Dispatch perl v5.14.2 2011-11-26 CGI::Application::Dispatch::Regexp(3pm)
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