From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-10-08T05:41:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Code for title-casing (US) snail addresses?

Hi --

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Oct 7, 2005, at 3:06 PM, rpardee@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Niiice!  I'm so glad I asked.
>> 
>> I think the only thing that doesn't get me is keeping suffixes on
>> ordinals in lowercase (I need 21st, not 21St).  But I should be able to
>> get that together...
>
> Add this line, before the other gsub!():
>
> my_address.gsub!(/(\d)([A-Z]+)/) { $1 + $2.downcase }

You can safely downcase digits along with the letters:

   /\d[A-Z]+/ {|s| s.downcase }

or something like that.


David

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David A. Black
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