From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T04:40:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Capitalization

Jason  Vogel wrote:

> Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all.  I know
> RegEx is the answer, just don't know where to start.
> 
> Current Source:
>    str.split(' ').each {|w| w.capitalize!}.join(' ')
> 
> Text:
>    ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
>    SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK
> 
> Result:
>    Additional Spa (only Available W/purchase Of Pool Or Spa)
>    Seller Heat/ac/ductwork
> 
> Desired:
>    Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
>    Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork
> 
> Isssus:
>   - Need to capitalize after a "/'
>   - Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
> "w/[a]" => "w/[A]")

How many special cases? In the worst case, you would have to use a
dictionary to avoid treating acronyms as a word. You already have two
rather difficult rules, one having to do with acronyms, another having to
do with special treatment of the sequence "w/".

What I am saying is this is likely to be more difficult than it seems,
especially because we only have one example of what might end up being
thousands of examples of free-form text.

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com