From: mmm <ruby@...>
Date: 2002-02-25T11:42:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] make first letter lowercase

Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote:
> Dave Thomas wrote:

>> matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
>> 
>>>Hmm, how about
>>>
>>>  s.upcase!(0,1)
>>>
>> It isn't very orthogonal.


> better suggestion(s)?

> Tobi


I do not think 'better', but 'different', is the following idea (based on PDF page 93, 'Pattern-Based Substitution' of _Programming_Ruby_ by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt http://ww.pragmaticprogrammers.com/ruby/index.html).  I do like it, though, since I enjoy regular expressions (/\b\w/ finds first letter of a 'word').

s = "ALONGCAPITALIZEDWORD"
s.sub!(/\b\w/) { $&.downcase }

OR, use 

s.gsub!(/\b\w/) { $&.downcase }

to downcase first letter of each word in a sentence.


Michael McDaniel


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