[erlang-questions] string title bif?

[Wes James]

Opps - you are right - I forgot to put in the "_" in my test string.

thx,

-wes

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Zoltan Lajos Kis <kiszl@REDACTED> wrote:
> That's because the code does what you requested: it uppercases letters
> following an _underscore_.
> Nevertheless you can add a new clause for spaces as well:
>
> f($ , _) ->  {$ , 'sep'};
> f($_, _) ->  {$ , 'sep'};
> f(C, 'sep') ->  {string:to_upper(C), 'char'};
> f(C, _) ->  {C, 'char'}.
>
> Zoltan.
>
> On 6/25/2010 8:53 PM, Wes James wrote:
>>
>> title("this is a test") returns "This is a test".  It only uppercases
>> the first word.  This could work to replace my fc_toupper (first char
>> to upper), though.
>>
>> thx,
>>
>> -wes
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Zoltan Lajos Kis<kiszl@REDACTED>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think a tiny state-machine with "mapfoldl" is a cleaner (albeit more
>>> imperative :o)) approach for this.
>>>
>>> title(String) ->
>>>    {Title, _} = lists:mapfoldl(fun f/2, 'sep', String),
>>>    Title.
>>>
>>> f($_, _) ->  {$ , 'sep'};
>>> f(C, 'sep') ->  {string:to_upper(C), 'char'};
>>> f(C, _) ->  {C, 'char'}.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Zoltan.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/25/2010 8:23 PM, Wes James wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a BIF that does this (I can't find one, if there is):
>>>>
>>>> string:title("this_is_a_title") ->    "This Is A Title".
>>>>
>>>> Or something like this?  If not I'll just create one.
>>>>
>>>> It would need to split the string at the "_" and then uppercase the
>>>> first character of each word.
>>>>
>>>> This test works:
>>>>
>>>> -------------------
>>>>
>>>> -module(title).
>>>>
>>>> -export([start/0]).
>>>>
>>>> start() ->
>>>>        title(string:tokens("this_is_a_title","_")).
>>>>
>>>> title([H|T]) ->
>>>>        [fc_upper(H)|title(T)];
>>>> title([]) ->    [].
>>>>
>>>> fc_upper([C|R]) ->
>>>>        [string:to_upper(C)]++R.
>>>>
>>>> ----------------
>>>>
>>>> thx.
>>>>
>>>> -wes
>>>>
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