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Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script

From Rebelo <puntabluda@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script
Date 2012-08-22 07:46 -0700
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> Let's move to Bug #2:
> 
>  2. How do I escape the words that are already in uppercase? For example:
> 
> 
> 
> The input file has this:
> 
> NASA
> 
> 
> 
> The script changes this to:
> 
> Nasa
> 
> 
> 
> Is it possible to make this script look at a word, see if its first
> 
> character is capitalized, if capitalized then skip that word. If not
> 
> do the processing? I don't wan to use regex? Do I need it?

change: 
 words[i] = word.capitalize() 

into:
if word != word.upper() :
     words[i] = word.capitalize()

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Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Santosh Kumar <sntshkmr60@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 18:30 +0530
  Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Rebelo <puntabluda@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 07:46 -0700
    Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-22 13:40 -0400
  Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Rebelo <puntabluda@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 07:46 -0700

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