From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T07:12:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Capitalization

Oops, forgot to paste this one in:
To get keep words like "of" and "is" lowercase: (basically anything 
under 3 letters)
text.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]{3,}(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}


Daniel Finnie wrote:
> Try this:
> str.gsub(/[A-Za-z]+/) {|x| x.capitalize}
> 
> If you want the W of W/ uncapitalized:
> str.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]+(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}
> 
> Paul Lutus wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
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