From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2008-05-11T00:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: "capitalize" also letters after "-" ?

El Sábado, 10 de Mayo de 2008, Harry Kakueki escribió:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> > Hi, I receive strings like:
> >
> >  content-language
> >  accept-resource-priority
> >
> > and I want to "capitalize" them in this way:
> >
> >  Content-Language
> >  Accept-Resource-Priority
> >
> > But String#capitalize method just capitalized first letter:
> >
> >  Content-language
> >  Accept-resource-priority
> >
> >
> > Is there any "fast" method for what I want?
> > Yes, I could implement it extending String class or my own class <
> > String, but performance is very important and I'd prefer using a method
> > written in C (as "String#capitalized"). Does is exist?
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Iñaki Baz Castillo
>
> Is this too slow?
>
> str = "accept-resource-priority"
> p str.split(/-/).map {|x| x.capitalize}.join("-")

Hummm:

Benchmark.realtime {   "accept".capitalize   }
=> 2.21729278564453e-05

Benchmark.realtime {   "accept".split('-').map {|w| 
w.capitalize}.join('-')   }
=> 3.69548797607422e-05





-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo