Capitalization

[Jason Vogel]

Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all. I know
RegEx is the answer, just don't know where to start.

Current Source:
str.split(' ').each {|w| w.capitalize!}.join(' ')

Text:
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

Result:
Additional Spa (only Available W/purchase Of Pool Or Spa)
Seller Heat/ac/ductwork

Desired:
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

Isssus:
- Need to capitalize after a "/'
- Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
"w/[a]" => "w/[A]")

Thanks,
Jason

 

[Martin DeMello]

Isssus:
- Need to capitalize after a "/'
- Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
"w/[a]" => "w/[A]")

Take a look at http://zem.novylen.net/ruby/titlecase.rb (especially
the icap method).

martin

 

[Daniel Finnie]

Try this:
str.gsub(/[A-Za-z]+/) {|x| x.capitalize}

If you want the W of W/ uncapitalized:
str.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]+(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}

Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all. I know
RegEx is the answer, just don't know where to start.

Current Source:
str.split(' ').each {|w| w.capitalize!}.join(' ')

Text:
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

Result:
Additional Spa (only Available W/purchase Of Pool Or Spa)
Seller Heat/ac/ductwork

Desired:
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

Isssus:
- Need to capitalize after a "/'
- Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
"w/[a]" => "w/[A]")

How many special cases? In the worst case, you would have to use a
dictionary to avoid treating acronyms as a word. You already have two
rather difficult rules, one having to do with acronyms, another having to
do with special treatment of the sequence "w/".

What I am saying is this is likely to be more difficult than it seems,
especially because we only have one example of what might end up being
thousands of examples of free-form text.

 

[Daniel Finnie]

Oops, forgot to paste this one in:
To get keep words like "of" and "is" lowercase: (basically anything
under 3 letters)
text.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]{3,}(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}

Try this:
str.gsub(/[A-Za-z]+/) {|x| x.capitalize}

If you want the W of W/ uncapitalized:
str.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]+(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}

Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all. I know
RegEx is the answer, just don't know where to start.

Current Source:
str.split(' ').each {|w| w.capitalize!}.join(' ')

Text:
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

Result:
Additional Spa (only Available W/purchase Of Pool Or Spa)
Seller Heat/ac/ductwork

Desired:
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

Isssus:
- Need to capitalize after a "/'
- Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
"w/[a]" => "w/[A]")

How many special cases? In the worst case, you would have to use a
dictionary to avoid treating acronyms as a word. You already have two
rather difficult rules, one having to do with acronyms, another having to
do with special treatment of the sequence "w/".

What I am saying is this is likely to be more difficult than it seems,
especially because we only have one example of what might end up being
thousands of examples of free-form text.

 

[Jacob Fugal]

Oops, forgot to paste this one in:
To get keep words like "of" and "is" lowercase: (basically anything
under 3 letters)
text.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]{3,}(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}

I agree with Paul Lutus, there are too many special cases. And
Daniel's regex here is a good example. I can spot at least three (to
me) obvious errors:

1) Anything with a '/' trailing will not get capitalized, so in the
OP's example, neither "heat" nor "ac" would be capitalized at all.

2) There are plenty of words with fewer than three letters that should
be capitalized. The first person pronoun "I", for instance. Or even
"of" or "is", if they're the first word in the sentence.

3) In the absence of 1 and 2, "ac" would still get turned into "Ac"
rather than "AC".

Jacob Fugal

 

[Daniel Finnie]

Oops, forgot to paste this one in:
To get keep words like "of" and "is" lowercase: (basically anything
under 3 letters)
text.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]{3,}(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}

I agree with Paul Lutus, there are too many special cases. And
Daniel's regex here is a good example. I can spot at least three (to
me) obvious errors:

1) Anything with a '/' trailing will not get capitalized, so in the
OP's example, neither "heat" nor "ac" would be capitalized at all.

Trailing /'s do work as long as the word before it is at least 3 letters
long.
irb(main):004:0> src.downcase.gsub(/[A-Za-z]{3,}(?!\/)/) {|x| x.capitalize}
=> "Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa) Seller
Heat/ac/Ductwork "

2) There are plenty of words with fewer than three letters that should
be capitalized. The first person pronoun "I", for instance. Or even
"of" or "is", if they're the first word in the sentence.

3) In the absence of 1 and 2, "ac" would still get turned into "Ac"
rather than "AC".

These are valid points that I feel shouldn't be incorporated into the
original regexp.

 

[William James]

Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all. I know
RegEx is the answer, just don't know where to start.

Current Source:
str.split(' ').each {|w| w.capitalize!}.join(' ')

Text:
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

Result:
Additional Spa (only Available W/purchase Of Pool Or Spa)
Seller Heat/ac/ductwork

Desired:
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

Isssus:
- Need to capitalize after a "/'
- Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
"w/[a]" => "w/[A]")

Thanks,
Jason

specials = %w( of or w AC ).
inject({}){|h,s| h.update({s.downcase,s}) }

puts DATA.read.downcase.split( /([^a-z]+)/ ).map{|s|
specials or s.capitalize }.join

__END__
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK


--- output -----
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

 

[Jason Vogel]

William,

This is exactly what I'm looking for. I don't understand it, but it's
what I'm looking for.

Would you mind explaining what your code does?

Thanks,
Jason

Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all. I know
RegEx is the answer, just don't know where to start.

Current Source:
str.split(' ').each {|w| w.capitalize!}.join(' ')

Text:
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

Result:
Additional Spa (only Available W/purchase Of Pool Or Spa)
Seller Heat/ac/ductwork

Desired:
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

Isssus:
- Need to capitalize after a "/'
- Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
"w/[a]" => "w/[A]")

Thanks,
Jasonspecials = %w( of or w AC ).

inject({}){|h,s| h.update({s.downcase,s}) }

puts DATA.read.downcase.split( /([^a-z]+)/ ).map{|s|
specials or s.capitalize }.join

__END__
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

--- output -----
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

 

[William James]

William,

This is exactly what I'm looking for. I don't understand it, but it's
what I'm looking for.

Would you mind explaining what your code does?

Thanks,
Jason

Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all. I know
RegEx is the answer, just don't know where to start.

Current Source:
str.split(' ').each {|w| w.capitalize!}.join(' ')

Text:
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

Result:
Additional Spa (only Available W/purchase Of Pool Or Spa)
Seller Heat/ac/ductwork

Desired:
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

Isssus:
- Need to capitalize after a "/'
- Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
"w/[a]" => "w/[A]")

Thanks,
Jasonspecials = %w( of or w AC ).

inject({}){|h,s| h.update({s.downcase,s}) }

puts DATA.read.downcase.split( /([^a-z]+)/ ).map{|s|
specials or s.capitalize }.join

__END__
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

--- output -----
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork

It helps to inspect the data structures.

Try:

specials = %w( of or w AC ).
inject({}){|h,s| h.update({s.downcase,s}) }

p specials

text = DATA.read.downcase
p text.split( /([^a-z]+)/ )
puts text.split( /([^a-z]+)/ ).map{|s|
specials or s.capitalize }.join

__END__
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

 

[Jason Vogel]

William,

This is exactly what I'm looking for. I don't understand it, but it's
what I'm looking for.

Would you mind explaining what your code does?

Thanks,
Jason

Jason Vogel wrote:
Disclaimer : Ruby Nuby and I don't know RegEx basically at all. I know
RegEx is the answer, just don't know where to start.
Current Source:
str.split(' ').each {|w| w.capitalize!}.join(' ')
Text:
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK
Result:
Additional Spa (only Available W/purchase Of Pool Or Spa)
Seller Heat/ac/ductwork
Desired:
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/Ductwork
Isssus:
- Need to capitalize after a "/'
- Need specific word case handling (e.g. "Ac" => "AC","or" => "or",
"w/[a]" => "w/[A]")
Thanks,
Jasonspecials = %w( of or w AC ).
inject({}){|h,s| h.update({s.downcase,s}) }
puts DATA.read.downcase.split( /([^a-z]+)/ ).map{|s|
specials or s.capitalize }.join
__END__
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK
--- output -----
Additional Spa (Only Available w/Purchase of Pool or Spa)
Seller Heat/AC/DuctworkIt helps to inspect the data structures.

Try:

specials = %w( of or w AC ).
inject({}){|h,s| h.update({s.downcase,s}) }

p specials

text = DATA.read.downcase
p text.split( /([^a-z]+)/ )
puts text.split( /([^a-z]+)/ ).map{|s|
specials or s.capitalize }.join

__END__
ADDITIONAL SPA (ONLY AVAILABLE W/PURCHASE OF POOL OR SPA)
SELLER HEAT/AC/DUCTWORK

Paul and William,

Thank you both for taking the time to respond and explain. I really
appreciate it.

Thanks,
Jason