A correct "titlization" will not capitalize "small words" (articles, prepositions etc). This is probably overkill but I've got parser madness and just could not help myself =)
The attached mcz package will require Lukas Renggli's PetitParser from the repository at http://source.lukas-renggli.ch/petit Once loaded you can evaluate 'of mice and men' asTitle to get 'Of Mice and Men' John On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, David T. Lewis <le...@mail.msen.com>wrote: > I should note also that class Character has methods for testing > different kinds of characters (#isDigit and so forth). So if you > wanted your method to work for strings that might contain tab > characters or carriage returns as separator characters between > words, then you would use the #isSeparator test rather than looking > for space characters explicitly, like this: > > String>>titleize > "Answer a copy of myself with the first character of each word > capitalized " > " 'a mouse ate cheese' titleize " > ^ String streamContents: [:strm | self > inject: Character space > into: [:last :this | strm > nextPut: (last isSeparator > ifTrue: [this asUppercase] > ifFalse: [this])]] > > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:05:02AM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:31:40AM -0400, sergio_101 wrote: > > > is there a function that can do this: > > > > > > 'a mouse ate cheese' . 'A Mouse Ate Cheese' > > > > > > i found capitlize, but that only hits the first word.. > > > > Here is another way to do it: > > > > String>>titleize > > "Answer a copy of myself with the first character of each word > capitalized " > > " 'a mouse ate cheese' titleize " > > ^ String streamContents: [:strm | self > > inject: Character space > > into: [:last :this | strm > > nextPut: (last = Character space > > ifTrue: [this asUppercase] > > ifFalse: [this])]] > > > > Explanation: > > > > The #inject:into: steps through the string, keeping track of the > > preceding character and writing the current character to a stream, > > converting it to upper case if the preceding character was a space. > > > > The result of the #nextPut: is the character we wrote, which appears > > in the #last variable each time we step through the loop. > > > > The #streamContents: method provides the stream that we write the > > characters to, and answers the resulting string when complete. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beginners mailing list > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > -- http://jmck.seasidehosting.st
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