From: Sam Duncan <sduncan@...>
Date: 2010-12-09T10:18:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Splitting on capital letters

Very nice =]

On 09/12/10 14:07, Siep Korteling wrote:
> Sam Duncan wrote in post #967298:
>    
>> This might be ridiculous, but ...
>>
>> ("BenefitsAndFeatures".gsub(/[A-Z]/) { |c| "-#{c}"
>> }).reverse.chomp('-').reverse
>>
>> Sam
>>      
> Eliminating the reverse.chomp.reverse:
>
> "BenefitsAndFeatures".gsub(/\w(?=[A-Z])/){|match| "#{match}-"}
>
> the (?=[A-Z]) bit is a positive lookahead; the regex matches a word
> character followed by a capital, without making the capital part of the
> match.
>
> hth,
>
> Siep
>
>