Lower->Upper in AWK (was: Re: cascading pipes in awk)

[Scot Mcintosh]

In article <13921 at lanl.gov> dph at lanl.gov (David Huelsbeck) writes:
>
>Here is my solution to this problem along with a summary of solutions
>I recieved from other awkers when I posted asking for a better way.
>  <<a number of upper-case conversion programs>>

Here's my brute-force solution to add to the pile:
#where s is the argument being converted
gsub(/a/,"A",s);
gsub(/b/,"B",s);
   etc

Inefficient and inelegant, but at least it works.