Re: Regex Typecase

Quick aside for the search engines. You mean "titlecase," not "typecase." Prepositions and articles are generally not included in English so you'd want to do a hash based lookup : substitution for that. Also, given problematic abbreviations (pH) and propernames (McPerl) it's not possible to programmatically titlecase perfectly but you can get pretty close.

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Re^2: Regex Typecase by halley (Prior) on Aug 14, 2007 at 14:39 UTC
The library rules for title case are even more complicated than that. I learned that you capitalize the first and last words, even if they ARE prepositions or articles. You're right in that the edge cases like apostrophes and multiple capitals (e.g., "McDonald's") are annoyingly complicated to get right. For my website, I have a "turn filenames into titles" function. For example, `a-sunrise-to-remember.jpg` becomes `"A Sunrise to Remember"` which uses a small canned list of the most common prepositions and articles (including a few in Spanish). Every once in a while, I find I have to add yet another special case. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Regex Typecase
by halley (Prior) on Aug 14, 2007 at 14:39 UTC

For my website, I have a "turn filenames into titles" function. For example, a-sunrise-to-remember.jpg becomes "A Sunrise to Remember" which uses a small canned list of the most common prepositions and articles (including a few in Spanish). Every once in a while, I find I have to add yet another special case.

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