From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-12-10T17:25:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Capitalization

Jason  Vogel wrote:

> William,
> 
> This is exactly what I'm looking for.  I don't understand it, but it's
> what I'm looking for.
> 
> Would you mind explaining what your code does?

Here is the code the prior poster offered (and please do not top-post -- it
makes it hard to reconstruct the thread):

puts DATA.read.downcase.split( /([^a-z]+)/ ).map{ |s| specials[s] or
s.capitalize }.join

Here is the breakdown:

DATA.read.downcase

Means: "read the data, convert entirely to lowercase"

.split( /([^a-z]+)/ )

means: "split the data on non-alphabetic boundaries (which in this case
produces an array of entities consisting of words and slashes)"

.map{ |s| specials[s] or s.capitalize }

Means: "submit each word to a block of code that either succeeds in matching
the word with a predefined special set of exceptions or, failing that,
capitalizes the word (uppercases the first character)"

.join

Means: "join the array into one continuous line separated by spaces"

Finally, print it all using the very first command on the line -- "puts".

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