From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T13:23:29+09:00
Subject: Re: opinion on a simple method


On 4 Oct 2007, at 13:00, Lloyd Linklater wrote:

> I am trying to find the better way to do things ruby style.  I  
> needed to
> make a method that would read in a file of movie titles and capitalize
> each word.
>
> "this is a string".capitalize just gets the first word, so I did this:
>
> File.open('\movies.txt') do |f|
>   while line = f.gets
>     s = ""
>     line.split(/ /).each {|one_word| s += one_word.capitalize + ' '}
>     puts s.chop
>   end
> end
>
> Is there a cleaner or more "rubyish" way to do this?
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

How about:

File.foreach('\movies.txt') do |l|
   puts l.split.map{|w| w.capitalize}.join(" ")
end

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University