If merely gaining the ability to write scripts is your goal, your approach poses no problem at all. However, if building scripts that compile and appear to work (on a limited sample of data) is the extent of your ambition, you'll be missing a bet. One of the most highly valuable aspects of the Monastery is that you can call for help upon a community whose population includes some extraordinarily skilled programmers and whose topic is a wonderfully versatile language.
High level programmer skills go well beyond syntax.
If your data set is narrowly constrained, and you won't have to do too many s/// (where the value of "many" is "small" or "tolerable to you") that's a perfectly valid approach.
Answering that (for yourself; I can't without a better grasp of the data set) requires analysis:
As for the rest of your questions... go for it! I too tend to learn in exactly that mode.
However, as a favor to yourself AND to those who seek to help, please look hard at the preview of your posts for typos and/or language errors (for ex., "uncial" and "on" where "in" appears to be intended, above) that may obscure your meaning.
In reply to Re^8: Capitalize First Letter of Each Word
by ww
in thread Capitalize First Letter of Each Word
by Anonymous Monk
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