From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-01-25T01:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: strings that contain quote marks


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> Datum: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:59:58 +0900
> Von: "jonsteenbergen@gmail.com" <jonsteenbergen@gmail.com>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: strings that contain quote marks

> Sorry if this post is a duplicate, I'm having problems with my posts
> posting.
> 
> Hello,
> I've searched through the Ruby documentation to try and figure this
> out - no luck at all, also searched google to see if anyone had
> written about this. Any help or direction on where to find the answer
> would be much appreciated!
> 
> This is in a rails project, but I think the answer lies in Ruby's
> string methods.
> I've got an object that has a list of materials attached to it, so in
> my model I grab all the materials and convert them into a string -
> like this:
> 
> self.materials.collect{ |x| x.material.strip.humanize.split.map{ |w|
> w.capitalize}.join(' ')}.join(', ')
> 
> So I break apart each material by word, capitalize it, put that
> material string back together and then join all the materials by
> commas.
> 
> This works great, except that some of the materials are books with the
> titles surrounded by quotes -
> Book "the Snowy Day," By Ezra Jack Keats
> 
> So my code above works, except for the first letter after the initial
> "
> Is there a method to deal with this, so that it correctly capitalizes
> the first letter after the " if there is a quote?  I've tried a lot of
> different things, but nothing is giving me the results I need.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> Thanks!

Dear Jon,

try this:

text='Book "the Snowy Day," By Ezra Jack Keats'
while /\"([a-z])/.match(text)
	ref=/\"([a-z])/.match(text)
	text.gsub!(ref[0],'"' + ref[1].capitalize)
end
p text

Best regards,

Axel 

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