[PLUG] reg. ex.

[Dave Jacoby]

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Brent Meshier wrote:

>Hey, someone on this list was helping me with regular expressions last year,
>and I have another question.  I think it might have been Dave?  Anyhow, if
>that person could contact me, I'm looking for an expression that will
>capitalize the first letter of each word in a sentence and lowercase
>everything else.

 s/(\w+)/\L\u$1/g 

This is perl's regex. It might have to change for anything else.
(\w)+ grabs a thing that is all word characters [A-Za-z_] and puts
them into the $1 of the second part. \L forces everything after to be
lower case. \u forces the next letter to be upper case. There is a
closing character, but I forgot what it is. You don't need it here,
because the changes only occur within the s///.

>--Brent

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