convert specific field to upper case in file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi Friends,

I have a file1.txt as below

I want to convert the date fields in to upper case field3 and field 6

output.txt

Plz help.

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awk -F\| '{$3=toupper($3);$6=toupper($6)}1' OFS=\| file

With Perl:

perl -pe 's/((?:.*?\|){2})(.*?)((?:\|.*?){2})(\|.*?)(\|.*)/\1\U\2\E\3\U\4\E\5/' file
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@Elixir : Thanks for the reply. it works as expected.