Re: Regex help needed

From: those who know me have no need of my name (not-a-real-address_at_usa.net)
Date: 06/17/04

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    Date: 17 Jun 2004 10:17:48 GMT

    in comp.unix.misc i read:

    >I need to set up a regex to convert a text string (actually a word) to all
    >lowercase.
    >
    >The application in which I need to use the regex supposedly supports POSIX.

    >the application will accept only a maximum of 12 expressions, way short of
    >the 26 I'd need for my purposes.

    >I've tried fiddling around with \L but the application insists on
    >recognizing this only as a text string.

    naturally, there is no \L operator in the posix regular expression language.

    >Can anybody suggest anything else to try??

    given the restrictions you mention i see no way. any way to integrate a
    more useful tool into the sequence? e.g., if you can get perl involved
    that \L you'd like to use would be available. 

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