From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-06-11T08:38:55+09:00
Subject: Re: custom capitalization

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Here is a thought:

String#capitalize capitalized the first letter.  So it doesn't do quite 
what you want:

"john".capitalize     #=> "John"
"john doe".capitalize #=> "John doe"

So I would split, then capitalize, then join:

"john doe jr".split.map{|e| e.capitalize}.join(" ")  #=> "John Doe Jr"

HTH,
Daniel.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:34:16AM +0900, Steven Ketcham wrote:
> 
> Is there a ruby way to enforce specific capitalization style?
> 
> i.e. 
> change "JOHN DOE" to "John Doe"
> 
> In C++ I search for a space then captalize the next letter and 
> capitalize the first letter of the string.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 

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