quick regex question

[James Stroud]

> > >> "".join("string with spaces".title().split())
> >
> > 'StringWithSpaces'
>
> wow, that is really elegant.  thank you both.

Yes, elegant.

 > > suggestion anyway (not everything really merits a regex) =)

Unfortunately true. However, as regex is fun...

s/(^|\s)+(\S)/\u$2/g

(Perl. I think the translation to Python is trivial...but not as unreadable.)

James

On Thursday 28 October 2004 12:28 pm, Matt Price wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:23:23PM +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
> > Steven Bethard wrote:
> > > Matt Price <matt.price <at> utoronto.ca> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > I know you asked for a regex solution, but I thought I'd drop this
> > > suggestion anyway (not everything really merits a regex) =)
> >
> > I second that :-)
> >
> > >>>> string1 = 'string with spaces'
> > >>>> ''.join([s.title() for s in string1.split()])
> > >
> > > 'StringWithSpaces'
> >
> > Or, without the list comprehension:
> > >>> "".join("string with spaces".title().split())
> >
> > 'StringWithSpaces'
>
> wow, that is really elegant.  thank you both.
>
> matt
>
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