Changing the case of a string with awk

Question

I\'m an awk newbie, so please bear with me.

The goal is to change the case of a string such that the first letter of every word is uppercase and the remaining letters ar

Answer 1

My solution will be to get the first part of the sub with a first substr insted of your regex :

echo 'ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP' | awk '{for (i=1 ; i <= NF ; i++) {sub(substr($i,2),tolower(substr($i,2)),$i)} print }'
Abcd Efgh Ijkl Mnop