Gawk 3.04

[groggy]

it's been a occuring theme for me to run into this problem which - if solved
- would add alot of power/functionality to gawk:

    s="xxx yyy zzz"
    gsub(/^./, toupper("&"), s)
    gsub(/ ./, toupper("&"), s)

as an over-simplistic example of intending to capitalize the 1st char of all
words in a sentence. but gawk doesn't seem to allow the matched r.e. to be
passed to any string returning functions for processing.  this would be a
very powerful enhancement without breaking any existing programs - these
types of operations are very unwieldy to do in other ways.  it also
has a feel of being "sensible", since "&" should be holding the
match throughout the middle parameter of g/sub functions. ?

thank you for all your work. :)

Chris.