From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T03:24:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] upper to lower first letter of a word


On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 12:34 PM, Yvon Thoraval wrote:

> Recently, i get a vintage list (more than 500 items) with poor typo, 
> for
> example, i've :
>
> C�te de beaune-villages
>
> instead of :
>
> C�te de Beaune-Villages
>
> Cr�mant d'alsace
>
> instead of :
>
> Cr�mant d'Alsace
>
> i wonder of the way to change lower to upper case and also of
>
> a regex able to do the trick.
>
> something like :
>
> every letter following a " ", "-" or "'" should be upper if not
> belonging to a black list of words :
>
> black_list = %w{d de du la le sec sur entre etc...}

You might adapt the English language 'titlecase' program, which can be 
found here:

http://zem.novylen.net/ruby/titlecase.rb

Regards,

Mark