Is there any way I can change the name of a table. At the moment I have tables like;

links_something
links_category
links_rubbish

Is there any way, or script, that you could rename the tables to have capitals in the second palf of it (i.e after the _). Like this;

links_Something
links_Category
links_Rubbish

I'm assuming it could be done by grabbing the list of tables in the database, and then splitting thgem up by the _. Then capitalising the second half. However, I'm not very good with Perl and SQL...so any help you an offer would be appreciated

Thanks

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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http://www.mysql.com/.../E/RENAME_TABLE.html

get the table names via dbi and use the regex

$loc = index($name, "_") + 1;
$replaced = substr($name, $loc);
$name = $name . ucfirst($replaced);
$sth = $sth->prepare("rename table $beforename TO $name");
$sth->execute();

Some of that is a bit poor, but I would appreciate it if anyone could give me ideas on how to improve that.
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Dorg Hurgler Van Schongleur,
NordHein Van Resetelem, Belgium.
Eck SchekeBuugler Technologies.

and for the table listings you could use show tables;

you will need the error checking too obviously
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Dorg Hurgler Van Schongleur,
NordHein Van Resetelem, Belgium.
Eck SchekeBuugler Technologies.