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On 10/7/11, Marc <sono...@fannullone.us> wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Rob Dixon wrote:
>
>> my $string = 'The Kcl Group';
>>
>> $string =~ s/\b([aeiouy]{3,4}|[^aeiouy]{3,4})\b/\U$1/ig;
>>
>> print $string, "\n";
>
> I'd like to revisit this, if I could. I've modified the above regex so
> as
> not to capitalize ordinal numbers, however I've noticed that it produces
> incorrect output if the word has an apostrophe. Given:
>
> my $string = "rex's chicken on 51st st. at lkj";
> $string =~ s/\b([aeiouy]{3,4}|[^aeiouy0123456789]{3,4})\b/uc($1)/eg;
>
> the output is:
> Rex'S Chicken on 51st ST. at LKJ
>
> It should be:
> Rex's Chicken on 51st St. at LKJ
>
> I Googled and tried everything I'd found, but I can't fix it. Again,
> that
> line should capitalize 3 and 4 letter words that have either all vowels or
> all capitals. The code I found below works great for capitalization except
> for that one regex which throws a wrench into it.
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
> -----------
>
> # http://daringfireball.net/2008/08/title_case_update
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use utf8;
> use open qw( :encoding(UTF-8) :std );
>
>
> my @small_words = qw( (?<!q&)a an and as at(?!&t) but by en for if in of on
> or the to v[.]? via vs[.]? );
> my $small_re = join '|', @small_words;
>
> my $apos = qr/ (?: ['’] [[:lower:]]* )? /x;
>
> my $string = "rex's chicken on 51st st at lkj";
>
> $string =~
> s{
> \b (_*) (?:
> ( [-_[:alpha:]]+ [@.:/] [-_[:alpha:]@.:/]+ $apos ) #
> URL, domain, or
> email
> |
> ( (?i: $small_re ) $apos ) # or
> small word
> (case-insensitive)
> |
> ( [[:alpha:]] [[:lower:]'’()\[\]{}]* $apos ) # or
> word w/o internal
> caps
> |
> ( [[:alpha:]] [[:alpha:]'’()\[\]{}]* $apos ) # or
> some other word
> ) (_*) \b
> }{
> $1 . (
> defined $2 ? $2 # preserve URL, domain, or email
> : defined $3 ? "\L$3" # lowercase small word
> : defined $4 ? "\u\L$4" # capitalize word w/o internal caps
> : $5 # preserve other kinds of word
> ) . $6
> }exgo;
>
> $string =~
> # exceptions for small words: capitalize at start and end of title
> s{
> ( \A [[:punct:]]* # start of title...
> | [:.;?!][ ]+ # or of subsentence...
> | [ ]['"“‘(\[][ ]* ) # or of inserted subphrase...
> ( $small_re ) \b # ... followed by small word
> }{
> $1\u\L$2
> }xigo;
>
> $string =~
> s{
> \b ( $small_re ) # small word...
> (?= [[:punct:]]* \Z # ... at the end of the title...
> | ['"’†)\]] [ ] ) # ... or of an inserted subphrase?
> }{
> \u\L$1
> }xigo;
>
> $string =~ s/\b([aeiouy]{3,4}|[^aeiouy0123456789]{3,4})\b/uc($1)/eg;
>
> print "$string \n";
> print "$string \n";
>
>
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