From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-11-04T23:46:29+09:00
Subject: Re: substitution problem

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:53:30PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> > I'd like to capitalize every word in a string.
> 
> One way:
> 
>   str.split.map {|x| x.capitalize}.join(" ")
> 
> but you may not be happy with the way it treats
> spaces and such.

Similar to your second example and preserving spaces:

str = "the   quick brown fox,   jumped over the lazy dog"

str.scan(/(\w+)(\W+)*/).flatten.map {|x| x.capitalize unless x.nil?}.join

> This works for me. Depends on your data.

Ditto. :-)

Massimiliano