[wplug] case utility

[Gary Morrow]

Teodorski, Christopher wrote:
> Here is my attempt at an explanation of the particular issue at hand:
> 
> A web application was written for Windows.  Thus allowing said
> developers to play fast and loose with case, i.e. the file name is
> myimage.jpg -- however in the code, it is referred to as MyImage.jpg and
> myImage.jpg and mYiMage.jpg.    This works fine in Windows because as we
> all know Windows is case insensitive (except when it isn't).  
> 
> However, this application is looking for a new home on a *nix box and
> features many 404's now because of the above mentioned case issue when
> run on *nix.
> 
> The question is:  Is there a good way to grab a filename from a
> directory -- and match it regardless of case within all files in the
> directory and if a match is found replace it with the proper case. 
> 
> It sounds to me like a job for Perl -- but I'm a Perl noob and it'd take
> me some serious time to get my head wrapped around this (although I'm
> going to give it the old college try).
> 
> 

To compare them I would first downcase both names.

In Perl:

opendir(HERE,"/home/gwm/work");
@files = readdir HERE;
close HERE;
$reqName = $ARGV[0];

($down1 = $reqName) =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;

LOCAL:
foreach $localName ( @files ) {

	($down2 = $localName) =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;

	if ( $down1 eq $down2 ) {
		print "$localName\n";
		last LOCAL;
	}

}

Gary

> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+christopher.teodorski=ddiworld.com at wplug.org
> [mailto:wplug-bounces+christopher.teodorski=ddiworld.com at wplug.org] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Billings
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:18 PM
> To: General user list
> Subject: Re: [wplug] case utility
> 
> On Apr 3, 2005 9:02 PM, Freisleben, Kayln
> <Kayln.Freisleben at ddiworld.com> wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know of a utility that will rip through a program and
> 
> match 
> 
>>the case of the program call with the file being called?
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, what you have said doesn't make any sense.  Could you
> describe what you want to do with a bit more detail?  Maybe give an
> example of what you'd expect?
> 


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Gary Morrow
UNIX Systems Engineering and CASE Tools.
Ansys Inc.
gary.morrow at ansys.com
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