translating code to 'mixed' case

[Michael Friendly]

This is a problem I thought there would have been scripts or modules
I could adapt, but I havent found anything all that useful
on CPAN or other sources (Perl cookbook, 2nd ed)

Given code (perl/C/R, ...) with comments, 'strings', "strings"
and code,
- convert all comments to mixed case as sentences, capitalizing
the first lettter of each '.' delimited sentence, but retain all
'strings' and "strings" within comments in original case.
- convert all non-comment code to lower case, but retain all
'strings' and "strings" within comments in original case.

thanks

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[Anno Siegel]

This is a problem I thought there would have been scripts or modules
I could adapt, but I havent found anything all that useful
on CPAN or other sources (Perl cookbook, 2nd ed)

Given code (perl/C/R, ...) with comments, 'strings', "strings"
and code,
- convert all comments to mixed case as sentences, capitalizing
the first lettter of each '.' delimited sentence, but retain all

Not every period delimits a sentence. That would capitalize more
than required.

'strings' and "strings" within comments in original case.

What about q(), qq(), and here docs? What about auto-quoted
text in "{}" and before "=>"?

- convert all non-comment code to lower case, but retain all
'strings' and "strings" within comments in original case.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't think you want that restriction here.

Doing what you plan without a parser for the programming language,
plus at least a rudimentary natural language parser for the comments
would make a mess out of any source text.

Anno