From: Jan Fischer <janfischer@...>
Date: 2008-11-13T19:27:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression for matching spaced letters needed

Sorry, wanted it here.

Jan Fischer schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> please tell me, if this isn't the right place to ask.
> I am looking for a regular expression which matches "spaced words" in a 
> sentence like, for example, "M I L L E R" or "B u s h" and replaces them 
> with "Miller" or "Bush".
> I found out that 
> sub!(/\s?([A-Z])\s([A-Z])\s([A-Z])\s([A-Z])\s([A-Z])\s?/,' \1\2\3\4\5 ') 
> works for 4 Letters. (Analogue for any other fix number.) But I just 
> can't figure out how to match any number and how to don't match any 
> letters of surrounding words.
> 
> "A B C D E" -> "ABCDE"
> "a b c d" -> "abcd"
> "hello A B C test" -> "hello ABC test"
> 
> Think you got it. Which regexp will do the job?
> 
> Regards Jan