I want to convert to upper case the first letter of all the words in a text
document, how can I do that with vi ?

do I do something like this :

:1,$s/ ^[a-z]/ ^[A-Z]/g
^ ^
blank blank
space space


Thanks

Enrique A typed (on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:06:51PM +0000):
| I want to convert to upper case the first letter of all the words in a text
| document, how can I do that with vi ?
|
| do I do something like this :
|
| :1,$s/ ^[a-z]/ ^[A-Z]/g
| ^ ^
| blank blank
| space space

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Enrique A wrote:
> I want to convert to upper case the first letter of all the words in a text
> document, how can I do that with vi ?
>
> do I do something like this :
>
> :1,$s/ ^[a-z]/ ^[A-Z]/g
> ^ ^
> blank blank
> space space

If you're willing to use vim rather than vi, see if this thread helps:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....3ec94bc16cc9e9

Enrique A wrote:
>
> I want to convert to upper case the first letter of all the words in a text
> document, how can I do that with vi ?
>
> do I do something like this :
>
> :1,$s/ ^[a-z]/ ^[A-Z]/g
> ^ ^
> blank blank
> space space
>
> Thanks

I have found this to work:

1,$s/.*/\L&/ <- Make everything lower case
g/[a-z][a-z]*/s//\u&/g <- Make every first letter in string of letters upper case.
g/"[A-Z][a-z]"/s//\U&/g <- Correct two letter state abbreviations to all uppercase ("," delimited file)

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S.M. Fabac & Associates
816/765-1670

"Steve M. Fabac, Jr." <smfabac@att.net> wrote in message
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> Enrique A wrote:
>>
>> I want to convert to upper case the first letter of all the words in a
>> text
>> document, how can I do that with vi ?
>>
>> do I do something like this :
>>
>> :1,$s/ ^[a-z]/ ^[A-Z]/g
>> ^ ^
>> blank blank
>> space space
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I have found this to work:
>
> 1,$s/.*/\L&/ <- Make everything lower case
> g/[a-z][a-z]*/s//\u&/g <- Make every first letter in string of letters
> upper case.
> g/"[A-Z][a-z]"/s//\U&/g <- Correct two letter state abbreviations to
> all uppercase ("," delimited file)
>
> --
>
> Steve Fabac
> S.M. Fabac & Associates
> 816/765-1670
>

Awesome! It works great!. Thanks so much!