Re^3: Regex Substitution Evaluations

I think pc88mxer answered your question for the most part.

$my_name = replace("august ferdinand mobius","\b(\w)","\U$1","igs");
# Becomes something more like...
$my_name = replace("august ferdinand mobius", qr/(?igs)\b(\w)/, '\U$1'
+);
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Update: You should consider that your solution will not work for a variety of names, like mccleod, vomdorp, decaro, etc. For proper names, a dictionary (with the right library under it, like proper names) is a better way to go, and there is no perfect solution since the same spellings are sometimes capitalized differently. :(

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Re^4: Regex Substitution Evaluations by oko1 (Deacon) on Jul 05, 2008 at 22:31 UTC
I gave a few examples, more-or-less off the top of my head, in an article I wrote a number of years ago, when I was talking about the inadvisability of assumptions when it came to names: John deJongh Jan M. van de Geijn Kathleen O'Hara-Mears Siu Tim Au Yeung Nang-Soa-Anee Bongoj Niratpattanasai Mjölby J. de Waærn Also, assuming things about the order of, say, Chinese or Indian names is likely to run into problems - even within a given city, in the latter case. -- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- HG Wells	[reply]
Re^4: Regex Substitution Evaluations by mobiusinversion (Beadle) on Jul 07, 2008 at 18:53 UTC
The names problem is interesting, although I'm sort of kicking myself for giving it as an example. The motivation for this post was and is to develop a general substitution framework for parametrized regex creation...	[reply]