Re: Regular expression for correcting proper nouns
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:50:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular expression for correcting proper nouns | ||
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On Wednesday 17 July 2002 20:07, Henry wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for a simple was to correct a list of proper nouns given all in
> lower case!
>
> For example
>
> given $string="london paris rome";
>
> I would like "London Paris Rome".
>
> However there is one cavet; if the word already has a captital anywhere in
> it, it should be left alone!!!
ucwords()
> Is there a soultion using regular expressions?
Yes.
> Also is there one for removing multiple spaces?
Yes.
> i..e given "A B C D E" it would give "A B C D E".
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