From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-03-12T14:36:18+09:00
Subject: Re: How to add a destructive method to the String class...

Hi,

In message "How to add a destructive method to the String class..."
    on 03/03/12, Jeremy <thinker5555@yahoo.com> writes:

|all the words in a string, assuming that each word is seperated by a space. 
|I did this, and it works fine:
|
|class String
|    def capwords
|        self.split.each { |word| word.capitalize! }.join(" ")
|    end
|end
|
|It does what I need, but it got me thinking.  How would I make this
|destructive?  In other words, rather than having to do an assingment like
|this:

class String
    def capwords!
        self.gsub!(/^[a-z]/) {|x| x.upcase }
    end
end

							matz.