From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-04-09T04:28:06+09:00
Subject: Re: capitalizing words

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I need to capitalize the words in a string I find in XML files.
>
>  The string that's in (.*) below is what I need to change. I just want to
>  capitalize the first letter of each word in the string.
>
>  I'm trying this, in a test:
>
>  Dir.chdir("C:/users/pb4072/documents")
>  file = File.read("test1.txt")
>  file.gsub(/^<row><entry><text><emph face="b">(.*)<\/emph>/)  do |match|
>   array = $1.split
>   array.each do |word|
>   word.capitalize!
>   end
>  newfile = File.open("c:/users/pb4072/documents/test1.txt", "w") { |f|
>  f.print array }
>  end
>
>  And, I'm getting this:
>
>  #(.*)<\/emph>theQuickBrownFoxJumpedOverTheLazyDog.
>
>  I want this:
>
>  <row><entry><text><emph face="b">The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The
>  Lazy Dog.<\/emph>/
>
>
>  Thanks,
>  Peter

I don't know what the original text looks like in test1.txt, but this
might point you in the right direction...

irb(main):001:0> s = "the quick brown fox"
=> "the quick brown fox"
irb(main):002:0> s.split.map {|w| w.capitalize}.join ' '
=> "The Quick Brown Fox"

Todd