From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2002-01-26T03:03:25+09:00
Subject: Re: upcase/downcase first character of a word

Hi,

Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:

:
:any simpler way than
:--
:class String
:
:   def upcase_first
:     self[0] = self[0].chr.upcase[0]
:     self
:   end
:
:   def downcase_first
:     self[0] = self[0].chr.downcase[0]
:     self
:   end
:
:
:end
:--
:?

class String

  def upcase_first
    sub!(/./){$&.upcase}
  end

  def downcase_first
    sub!(/./){$&.downcase}
  end

end

-- 
eban