[TAG] Filters

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Ben Okopnik wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 08:32:32AM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
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>>Ben Okopnik wrote:
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>>>In fact, a number of programmers do something like this for names (which
>>>is going to be wrong in a number of cases, but can be a reasonable
>>>compromise):
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>>>print join " ", map ucfirst lc, split "Joe Q. Fuzzball";
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>>Heh. Since my surname is so frequently mangled, I think I'd have to go 
>>that extra mile.
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>Heck, Jimmy - you're _easy._ :) You've got a non-word character
>preceding every letter to be capped (and this, in fact, is _my_ favorite
>way to properly capitalize MP3 names):
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>perl -wle'($_=lc pop) =~ s/(?<!\w)(\w)/\u$1/g; print' "JIMMY O'REGAN"
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>RE lookbehinds. Love'em.
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Cool. I'll remember that the next time I have some web form choke on my 
name :)