Perl: How can I capitalize a regex match?

Question

I am using this regular expression to find patterns in a genome.

$string =~ /(?i)a+t?|(?i)t+/g

To make the output easier to read I would like to modify it so it capitalizes anything it matches that is 4 to 7 characters long. Also it should not mess up the $+[0] or $-[0] variables.

the way i do the output is to get a sub-string from the larger string file based on the '$+[0]' and '$+[0]' i don't want to print out the regex matches i am printing out huge strings of correctors and i want the matches to stand out.

if you really need to see the code I'm working on you can get it here

Answer 1

With appropriate tests (for your match and for length (character groups with quantifiers like {4,7} are probably needed), without example content this is left to you) you could use an eval substituton s/(match)/uc($1)/eg which would take the matched string and make it uppercase then replace the match with the replacement.

As always read more at perldoc perlre perldoc perlreref perldoc perlretut

As a sidenote, I have always wondered if Genomes are a good candidate for Regexp::Grammars?