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    Copyright
    Foreword
    Preface
    Ch. 1. Strings
    Introduction
    Recipe 1.1. Accessing Substrings
    Recipe 1.2. Establishing a Default Value
    Recipe 1.3. Exchanging Values Without Using Temporary Variables
    Recipe 1.4. Converting Between Characters and Values
    Recipe 1.5. Using Named Unicode Characters
    Recipe 1.6. Processing a String One Character at a Time
    Recipe 1.7. Reversing a String by Word or Character
    Recipe 1.8. Treating Unicode Combined Characters as Single Characters
    Recipe 1.9. Canonicalizing Strings with Unicode Combined Characters
    Recipe 1.10. Treating a Unicode String as Octets
    Recipe 1.11. Expanding and Compressing Tabs
    Recipe 1.12. Expanding Variables in User Input
    Recipe 1.13. Controlling Case
    Recipe 1.14. Properly Capitalizing a Title or Headline
    Recipe 1.15. Interpolating Functions and Expressions Within Strings
    Recipe 1.16. Indenting Here Documents
    Recipe 1.17. Reformatting Paragraphs
    Recipe 1.18. Escaping Characters
    Recipe 1.19. Trimming Blanks from the Ends of a String
    Recipe 1.20. Parsing Comma-Separated Data
    Recipe 1.21. Constant Variables
    Recipe 1.22. Soundex Matching
    Recipe 1.23. Program: fixstyle
    Recipe 1.24. Program: psgrep
    Ch. 2. Numbers
    Ch. 3. Dates and Times
    Ch. 4. Arrays
    Ch. 5. Hashes
    Ch. 6. Pattern Matching
    Ch. 7. File Access
    Ch. 8. File Contents
    Ch. 9. Directories
    Ch. 10. Subroutines
    Ch. 11. References and Records
    Ch. 12. Packages, Libraries, and Modules
    Ch. 13. Classes, Objects, and Ties
    Ch. 14. Database Access
    Ch. 15. Interactivity
    Ch. 16. Process Management and Communication
    Ch. 17. Sockets
    Ch. 18. Internet Services
    Ch. 19. CGI Programming
    Ch. 20. Web Automation
    Ch. 21. mod_perl
    Ch. 22. XML
    Colophon
    Index
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    Chapter 1. Strings > Program: fixstyle

    Recipe 1.23. Program: fixstyle

    Imagine you have a table with both old and new strings, such as the following:

    Old words New words
    bonnet hood
    rubber eraser
    lorry truck
    trousers pants



      

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