-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 17. Januar 2005 06:34 schrieb Loren Wilton: > > Probably want to nuke punctuation and capitalization before doing > > the sort. I'm too braindead at the moment, but some perl incantation > > might be the way to go, or if you're old school then awk would probably > > work. > > Yea, that occurred to me. Since I was pasting a spam into a text file > anyway I just did that manually, since I couldn't seem to figure out sed's > re grouping syntax to treat the punctuation like spaces. > > Loren
For capitalization use "tr [:lower:] [:upper:]" or do delete chars use "tr -d 'chartodelet..'" Thomas - -- icq:133073900 http://www.t-arend.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB7CHlHe2ZLU3NgHsRAmOIAJ0XdtNmh62jmAWd42XI/xzsmArXLgCfXhvG hkMgLcwz4b2RPqN45y1Ocl4= =5GXe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----