Re: Print the string out in alternating upper and lowercase letters LiKe tHiS.

"LiKe tHiS" is NOT alternating upper and lowercase letters, there is a lower case "e" followed by a lower case "t". Or is there an upper case blank inbetween?

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Re^2: Print the string out in alternating upper and lowercase letters lIkE ThIs by Discipulus (Canon) on Jan 26, 2015 at 12:43 UTC
`perl -e "print map { $c++ %2 ? chr $_^' ' : chr $_ } unpack 'C', $ARG +V[0]" "like this"` [download] suffers the same problem of whitespace but is less redable... ;=) L There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Print the string out in alternating upper and lowercase letters LiKe tHiS. by Anonymous Monk on Jan 26, 2015 at 13:22 UTC
A more robust solution if you like: `perl -CO -Mutf8 -E 'say map { /\P{Cased}/ ? $_ : $c++ % 2 ? lc : uc } "comme ça" =~ /(\X)/g'` [download] Of course, at this point we should perhaps consider ucfirst and fc...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Print the string out in alternating upper and lowercase letters LiKe tHiS. by Anonymous Monk on Jan 26, 2015 at 14:22 UTC
(a typo; /^\P{Cased}/, of course, or else it can find these annoying combining marks...)	[reply]