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Old 02-14-2010
Perl - Title Case after apostrophe
I've got:

$string =~ s/(\w+)/\u\L$1/g;

Which capitalizes each word in the string. The problem is if I have a string with an apostrophe the first letter after it gets capitalized as well.

So Bob's becomes Bob'S.

Thanks for any quick fixes!
# 2  
Old 02-14-2010
Hello,

Try this
Code:
gaurav@localhost:~$ perl -wlp -e 's/(\S+)/\u\L$1/g;' <<< "Bob's gone to market"
Bob's Gone To Market
gaurav@localhost:~$

Regards,
Gaurav.
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Old 02-14-2010
Ah.... \S = any non-whitespace character!

Super... thank you very kindly!
# 4  
Old 02-14-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by gaurav1086
Code:
gaurav@localhost:~$ perl -wlp -e 's/(\S+)/\u\L$1/g;' <<< "Bob's gone to market"
Bob's Gone To Market

Regards,
Gaurav.
Only \u is enough...

Code:
echo "Bob's gone to market" | perl -wlp -e 's/(\S+)/\u$1/g;'

# 5  
Old 02-14-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by thegeek
Only \u is enough...

Code:
echo "Bob's gone to market" | perl -wlp -e 's/(\S+)/\u$1/g;'


Hello,

No only \u is not enough as we dont want something like this. ->

Code:
gaurav@localhost:~$ perl -wlp -e 's/(\S+)/\u$1/g;' <<< "BOb's goNe tO maRkEt"
BOb's GoNe TO MaRkEt
gaurav@localhost:~$

Regards,
Gaurav.
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