++ for chipmunk's answer, but for unicode or strings with non-letters in them, here's a less elegant solution (actually this is not tested with unicode, so someone correct me if I'm wrong):
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -l -w use strict; my $str = "SAdBoy"; $str =~ s/($str)/fix_case($1, 'badgirl')/eig; print $str; sub fix_case { my $match_word = shift; my $replace_word = shift; my $i = 0; for (split '', $match_word) { next if $_ eq lc; substr($replace_word, $i, 1) = uc substr($replace_word, $i, 1); } continue { $i++ } return $replace_word; }
Update: This and my other answer slightly updated, I just like it better now :-)

In reply to Re: Case-sensitive substitution with case-insensitive matches by runrig
in thread Case-sensitive substitution with case-insensitive matches by Anonymous Monk

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