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# 8  
Old 01-31-2011
Perhaps this migh avoid the artifacts:

Code:
nawk '
function oneup(str)
{
    sub("^[ \t]*", "", str);
    sub("[ \t]*$", "", str);
    return toupper(substr(str,1,1)) tolower(substr(str,2));
}
{
   if (split($4, name, ",") < 3)
       $4 = oneup(name[1]) " " oneup(name[2])
}
1' FS=\" OFS=\" myFile

# 9  
Old 01-31-2011
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="\""}
function oneup(str) {return toupper(substr(str,1,1)) tolower(substr(str,2))}
{split($4,a,"[, ]");$4=oneup(a[3]) " " oneup(a[1])}1' infile

# 10  
Old 01-31-2011
Nice rdcwayx didn't think to use space in the split command to, will this work with nawk under solaris, or is it a GNU thing?

Think it might be GNU 'cause it failes with awk on AIX.
# 11  
Old 01-31-2011
Test my code in Solaris (nawk) and Aix (/usr/bin/awk), both are fine.

If your system don't support "[, ]" in split, you can remove the space first by:

Code:
gsub(/ /,"",$4)

# 12  
Old 01-31-2011
Dont worry found the issue, I had extra test cases in my datafile, with 0,1 or 2 tabs/spaces after the comma and these caused the issue. If datafile sticks to 1 space after the comma all is good.
# 13  
Old 02-01-2011
Code:
 $ ruby -F"\"" -ane '$F[3]=~/(.*?)[, ]+(.*?)$/;$F[3]="#{$2.downcase.capitalize} #{$1.downcase.capitalize}";print $F.join("\"")' file

# 14  
Old 02-01-2011
Code:
 echo "TheWhisperers23Chapter 21    9781442305151    \"WHISPERERS\"    \"CONNOLLY, JOHN\" 2010" |sed 's/\(.*"\)\(.*\), \(.*\)\(".*\)/\1\L\3 "\u\3 \L\2 \u\2\4/' |awk '{$5=$7="";print $0}'
TheWhisperers23Chapter 21 9781442305151 "WHISPERERS"  "John  Connolly" 2010

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