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Re: Capitalize First Letter of Each Word

by inman (Curate)
on Jun 30, 2005 at 09:19 UTC ( [id://471301]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Capitalize First Letter of Each Word

#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

while (<DATA>) {
    s/\b(\w)(\w*)/uc($1).lc($2)/ge;
    print;
}

__DATA__
THIS iS a Text IN TITLE CASE
THIS IS TESTING
JOE MARCONES
RESIDENTIAL MAINTENANCE COMPANY

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Re^2: Capitalize First Letter of Each Word
by rev_1318 (Chaplain) on Jun 30, 2005 at 10:07 UTC
    or just:
    ...
    s/\b(\w)(\w*)/\U$1\L$2/g
...

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    no need for /ie...

    Paul

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      and the \b isn't needed either as the regex will match as many word characters as possible each time.
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Re^2: Capitalize First Letter of Each Word
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 11, 2005 at 17:03 UTC

    Mmmmmmm...

    __DATA__
This isn't right
And I'm wrong too
e-mail is nice when capped correctly
&c

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