cascading pipes in awk

[Scot Mcintosh]

In article <1962 at deimos.cis.ksu.edu> hager at ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Donald E. Hager) writes:
>The problem
>is that only one output statement to a pipe is permitted in an awk
>program.  The solution that I see is to pipe your translated text into
>an awk program:
>	cat filename | tr [a-z] [A-Z] | awk '<<other stuff...>>'

Unfortunately, I only want to uppercase a few selected portions of the
text my awk program is reading (my original posting contained a
very simplified example, so this wasn't obvious). There just doesn't
seem to be a way to have a filter program in the middle of two groups
of awk statements.

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