On Apr 12, 11:10 pm, shlomit.af...@weizmann.ac.il ("Shlomit Afgin")
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to write regular expression that will capitalize the first letter of
> each word in the string.
> Word should be string with length that is greater or equal to 3 letters
> exclude the words 'and' and 'the'.
>
> I tried:
> $string = lc($string);
> $string =~ s/\b(\w{3,}[(^the|^and)])\b/ucfirst($1)/ge;
A character class is the wrong strategy. For
more details about how character classes,
see: perldoc perlretut
Another possible solution:
s/\b(\w{3,})/ucfirst( lc $1)/ge;
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