From: Richard Powell <richpowell@...>
Date: 2011-02-10T15:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: capitalizing first letter in each line of a string.

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thanks!



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From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wed, February 9, 2011 12:44:50 PM
Subject: Re: capitalizing first letter in each line of a string.

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:32:50 +0900
Richard Powell <richpowell@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi, 
> Im in need of capitalizing first letter of each line in a long
> string, and have it print exactly the same (but with the first word
> capitalized+with the whitespace).. but cant figure it out.. any
> advise?
> 
> taco = <<-HERE
>                     to bad I hate tacos they taste great..
>   so much for a HEALTHY diet....
> 
> HERE
> 
> taco.scan(/\W+\.*\w+\.*/){|x| print x.capitalize}
> 
> ______
> 
> im guessing my regular expression is wrong. and possibly
> the .capitalize is in the wrong space?
> sorry im a newbie :)
> thanks
> rich

Here you are:

taco = <<-HERE
                    to bad I hate tacos they taste great..
  so much for a HEALTHY diet....

HERE

p taco.gsub(/^(\W*?[a-z])/) { |m| m.upcase }

-- 
  WBR, Peter Zotov


      
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