Colleagues

Assume that I have a vector containing some text strings, some of which contain 
a particular character.  I could like to apply "toupper" to the text before the 
character.  For example (in this case, "|" is the particular character):

ORIGINAL:
        TEXT    <- c("aaaa", "bbb|cc", "|ddd")

AFTER APPLICATION OF toupper:
        TEXT    <- c("AAAA", "BBB|cc", "|dddd")

I could loop through each element, strsplit at the character, apply toupper to 
the first component, then paste each element together.  But, I hope that there 
is a simpler means to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance.

Dennis


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