On 13/04/2011 07:10, Shlomit Afgin wrote:
>
> 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;
> but it not working so well.
Rules for title capitalisation are many and varied, but are always more
complex than just leaving 'and' and 'the' as lower case. A common rule,
and the one I prefer, is to capitalise all words except articles,
conjunctions, and prepositions.
Coding that would be a pain, so how about a module?
Rob
use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::Capitalize;
print capitalize_title('Regular expression to capitalize first letter of words
in sentence');
**OUTPUT**
Regular Expression to Capitalize First Letter of Words in Sentence
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