RE: [PHP] ucwords Except 'The' 'And' etc?

I know, I know, I have a lot of work to do...I shouldn't be doing this. I did get to play with PCRE regexps here, though...lotsa cool features over eregs!. Anyway, here's a *** NEW!!! IMPROVED!!! *** version of smart_ucwords(), that's probably way too much overkill. I did some quick tests, seems to work. Beware of email-induced line-wrapping, particularly in the comment black & quoted strings: <?php function smart_ucwords($String, $ForceCase=1, $CapitalizeTrailing=1) { ################################################################################ # # A more sophisticated approach to title-casing. # ## PARAMETERS ################################################################## #

#  $String              string   Input string.
#  $ForceCase           0|1      If true, will force title case (only first letter
#                                capitalized, no matter what case the string is in.
#  $CaptializeTrailing  0|1      If true, will capitalize a normally-excepted
#                                word if it is the last word in the string. So, a
#                                string like 'Shot In the Dark, A' works properly.

# ## USAGE NOTES ################################################################# # # The Exception List words should be in the case you desire; normally this will # be lowercase. # # The Invariant List contains words and titles (eg; NASA, MySQL, PostGreSQL, # eBusiness) whose capitalization should be fixed, no matter what. # # If one of these arrays is not to be used, simply set it to array(). # ## MODIFICATION HISTORY ######################################################## # # 14 august 2001: S. Edberg, UCDavis <sbedberg@ucdavis.edu> # Original # ################################################################################ $EXCEPTION_LIST = array(

      'a', 'an', 'and', 'at', 'but', 'for', 'nor', 'or', 'some', 'the', 'to', 'with'

); $INVARIANT_LIST = array(

      'NASA', 'MySQL', 'PostGreSQL', 'eBusiness'

); # First, strip & save leading & trailing whitespace preg_match(

      '/^(\s*?)(.*)(\s*)$/U',
      ($ForceCase ? strtolower($String) : $String),
      $StringParts

); # Replace exception words $String = ucwords($StringParts[2].($CapitalizeTrailing ? '' : ' ')); foreach ($EXCEPTION_LIST as $Word) {

      $String = preg_replace("/(\s+)$Word(\s+)/i", "\\1$Word\\2", $String);

} # Replace invariants $String = " $String "; foreach ($INVARIANT_LIST as $Word) {

      $String = preg_replace("/(\s+)$Word(\s+)/i", "\\1$Word\\2", $String);

} # Replace whitespace and return return $StringParts[1].trim($String).$StringParts[3]; } ?> At 4:09 PM -0500 8/13/01, Jeff Oien wrote:

Fabulous. Thanks to Steve and Mark. Exactly what I needed. Jeff Oien Something like this, perhaps (untested):

I needed this too so I just tested it.

function smart_ucwords($String) { $ExceptionList = array('the', 'an', 'a'); # should all be in lowercase $String = ucwords(strtolower(ltrim($String))); # LINE A foreach ($ExceptionList as $Word) { $String = eregi_replace("[[:space:]]+$Word[[:space:]]+", $Word, $String); }

this line should be more like: $String = eregi_replace("([[:space:]]+)".$Word."([[:space:]]+)", "\\1".$Word."\\2", $String);

return $String; # LINE B }

thanks! - Mark

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