From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-10-08T08:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Code for title-casing (US) snail addresses?

On Oct 7, 2005, at 5:46 PM, rpardee@gmail.com wrote:

> And thanks again!

Glad to help.

> If I can beg your indulgence a bit further... I'm having trouble
> elaborating this so it does the right thing for street names like
> 'McGrath'.  The simpler version is:

See if this works (untested):

> def prettify(address)
>    abbreviations  = %w(PO NE NW SE SW)
>    prefixes2      = %w(Mc O' D')
>    prefixes3      = %w(Mac)
>    address.gsub!(/(\d)([A-Z]+)/) { $1 + $2.downcase }
>    address.gsub(/[A-Z]+/) do |w|
>       # abbreviations.include?(w) ? w :  w.capitalize
>       if abbreviations.include?(w) then
>          w
>       else
>          w.capitalize
>       end
>    end

     address.gsub!(/\b(#{prefixes2.join("|")})(\w)/) { $1 +  
$2.capitalize }

> end

James Edward Gray II