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Old 02-23-2010
First Letter in a String to be capitalized
Is there a way to cnvert first letter alone in a string to upper case.

For eg: diamond should be converted to Diamond.
Thanks in Advance,
Kinny
# 2  
Old 02-23-2010
using Perl:

Code:
print ucfirst("diamond");

cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam
# 3  
Old 02-23-2010
using perl one liner
Code:
perl  -e "print ucfirst('diamond');"

# 4  
Old 02-23-2010
how's this....!

echo 'kinny' | sed -e 's/^\(.\)/\U\1/'
# 5  
Old 02-23-2010
or,

Code:
/home1->echo 'diamond' | awk '{sub(".",substr(toupper($0),1,1));print}'
Diamond
/home1->

# 6  
Old 02-23-2010
bash and tr :
Code:
s="diamond"
echo $(echo ${s:0:1} | tr [a-z] [A-Z])${s:1}

# 7  
Old 02-23-2010
using perl

Code:
echo "diamonds" | perl -wlne 'print "\u$_";'

Code:
o/p:-
Diamonds

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