Hi Monks!
This code does the capitalization on each word just fine, but my question is if I get a person's name like:
mcdonald or mcmaster or MCENROE what would be the best why to use this code but making sure that if names like that comes up it will also do the capitalization properly.
Here is the code

#!/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;

## capitalize each word's first character, downcase the rest

my $test = cap("o'tools");
my $test2 = cap("mcdonalds");
my $test3 = cap("mcmaster");
my $test4 = cap("MCENROE");

print "**1-$test**\n"; # should print "O'Tools" 
print "**2-$test2**\n"; #should print "Mc Donalds"
print "**3-$test3**\n"; #should print "Mc Master"
print "**4-$test4**\n"; #should print "Mc Enroe"
sub cap
 {
  my $case = shift || '';

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

  return $case;
 }
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Thanks for the Help!

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