From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-09-24T03:26:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] upper to lower first letter of a word

Hi --

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Yvon Thoraval wrote:

> Yvon Thoraval <yvon.thoravallist@-SUPPRIMEZ-free.fr.invalid> wrote:
>
> >
> > > string.gsub!(/\b[a-z]+/) { |w| black_list.include?(w) ? w : w.capitalize  }
> >
> > a lot of tanxs �;)
>
> it seems, it's a little bit trickier because accentuated characters are
> taken as \b for example :
>
> Vosne-roman�e
> becomes :
> Vosne-Roman�E

I believe the /s modifier to the regex will help you here by changing
the encoding, though I'm having character-rendering issues which make
it hard for me to test....  But try this, in the hope that I'm right
even though I can't see the characters:

str.gsub!(/\b[a-z]+/s) {|w| black_list.include?(w) ? w : w.capitalize}


David

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