From: "duerst (Martin Dürst)" <duerst@...>
Date: 2012-03-25T16:09:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:43631] [ruby-trunk - Feature #4822][Rejected] String#capitalize improvements


Issue #4822 has been updated by duerst (Martin D��rst).

Status changed from Open to Rejected

yeban (Anurag Priyam) wrote:
> > Hmm, how about this?
>  > str.gsub(/\w.*?[.!?](?:\s+|\z)/){|c|c.capitalize}
>  
>  This solves my problem better than what I was doing. Thanks. Do you
>  think that other's could also benefit from such an extension to
>  `capitalize`, or is it better done problem specific?

We have discussed this issue at today's developers' meeting in Akihabara.

This kind of processing is not only dependent on language, but even for a specific language needs a lot of information to do a reasonable job. To do it perfectly seems to require human intervention. Therefore, we think it is better if requirements like this are addressed with problem-specific solutions. We are therefore rejecting this issue.
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Feature #4822: String#capitalize improvements
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4822#change-25131

Author: yeban (Anurag Priyam)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 


I think it would be helpful if `String#capitalize` could capitalize _sentences_, and not just the first letter of a string. We could optionally pass a regexp to identify sentence boundaries. If we don't pass this parameter `capitalize` behaves as before.

  s = "hey all! wassup? i am good."

  # current capitalize
  s.capitalize #=> "Hey all! wassup? i am good."

  # new capitalize
  s.capitalize           #=> "Hey all! wassup? i am good."
  s.capitalize(/[?!.] /) #=> "Hey all! Wassup? I am good."

I am not sure what would it take to implement this.


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