Hello brothers, I have a question about converting case. I would like to open a file, read it in, convert everything to lowercase(except for file handles), and then rewrite the file. Here is what I tried:
$DATA = "my_data_file"";

open(FILE, $DATA)  || die "Couldn't open: $!";
while(<FILE>){$line = $line.$_;}
close(FILE);
$line =~ s/(\w+)/\l\l$1/g;
open(FILE, ">$DATA") || die "Couldn't open: $!";
  print FILE $line;
close(FILE);

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This was not exactly what I was looking for. It did not seem to lowercase all the letters(especially uppercase letters after an (_ underscore). It also lowercases my filehandles which I don't want. Naming conventions require all filehandles to be at least 4 characters long. I just got a copy of the perl cookbook this morning, and have not had much time to look through it yet. I will, but I thought my fellow monks might have an idea. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Prince99

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In reply to upper/lowercase search/replace by Prince99

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