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| Date | 2012-08-22 20:41 +1000 |
| Subject | Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.3644.1345632103.4697.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Kamil Kuduk <kamil.kuduk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Purpose of the script:
>> To capitalize the first letter of any word in a given file, leaving
>> words which have 3 or less letters.
>
> First or all? If first and this is the only purpose of the script you
> can easily use sed:
> less file.txt | sed -e "s/\b\([a-z]\{4,\}\)/\u\1/g"
Why less? Why not just redirect input?
Though, this isn't really on topic for Python.
ChrisA
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Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 20:41 +1000
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