in reply to Editing File In-Place to put tab before UpperCase Letters

Let's do it in unicode, perl -pi -e's/(\p{IsUpper})/\t$1/g' text.txt If you have some way of determining whether you want spaces or tabs, you should say what it is.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: Editing File In-Place to put tab before UpperCase Letters
by ranjan_jajodia (Monk) on Jul 23, 2005 at 06:32 UTC
    Thanks Zaxo for the solution. Sorry for the ambiguity regarding whether I wanted tab or space.

    Ranjan
    --Let Logic Rule--