From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-06-05T05:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to capitalize first word of a string?

On 04.06.2009 21:41, Rails List wrote:
> I have a string that I would like to capitalize and add bold html tag to
> the first word only.  How do i do it?.  Do I have to split first and
> then "upcase!" it then join again.  Not sure how to do it.  any help is
> much appreciated. thanks

Do you mean

irb(main):003:0> words = "foo bar baz"
=> "foo bar baz"
irb(main):004:0> words.sub(/\w+/) {|m| "<b>#{m.upcase}</b>"}
=> "<b>FOO</b> bar baz"
irb(main):005:0> words.sub(/\w+/) {|m| "<b>#{m.capitalize}</b>"}
=> "<b>Foo</b> bar baz"
irb(main):006:0>

Kind regards

	robert

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