I have a bi-lingual database of a large number of dictionaries. It so happens that in some a given string is in upper case and in others it is in lower case. An example will illustrate the issue.
I want to treat all three instances of
as one and map them as under:
I have an awk script which merges all such mappings, but it fails on instances where lower and upper case are involved
I am giving the script below
How do I modify the script such that it will ignore the cases mentioned above and merge all three to
I could convert the whole database to lower case but that is not feasible since some strings such as Acronyms need to be maintained in uppercase.
My operating system is Windows.
Many thanks for helping out and all good wishes for the New Year.
Thanks to all who helped.
I slightly modified RudiC's script
and it merged all three.
Many thanks to RavinderSingh13 for his help also. The solution he provided worked also
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HELLO
hi
HI
raj
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hi
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