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Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script

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  Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-22 20:41 +1000

#27626 — Re: help me debug my "word capitalizer" script

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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