From: Hee-Sob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2001-07-23T14:25:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18329] Re: capitalizing a string


"jared l. jennings" <jjenning@stetson.edu> wrote in message
news:fHN67.9714$4v6.851679@e420r-atl3.usenetserver.com...
> Say I've got a string p = 'fooBarPoit'.
> then p.capitalize == 'Foobarpoit'.
>
> One way that works is (assuming that string was called p)
> p[0..0].upcase + p[1..p.length]
>

How about

p.sub(/^./){$&.upcase}

Park Hee-Sob.