Iterating Over Each Word In a String in Ruby

Question

Do I need to have more lines of code just to get each word, in a string, to be capitalize using ruby?

h = "hello world and good morning"
h.capitalize #=> Hello world and good morning

I need all words be capitalized. How? Nothing has been mentioned here.

Do I need a messy code to extract each word, using regex, convert to capitalize then put back into string? That sounds messy. Is there a simple method for this?

It's not always straightforward to find out if there's a duplicate or not. :-) Nothing wrong in asking your question anyway. — Drenmi, Dec 08 '15 at 07:41

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '15 at 07:24

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h = "hello world and good morning" 
h.split.map(&:capitalize).join(' ')
#=> "Hello World And Good Morning"

answered Dec 08 '15 at 07:24

Andrey Deineko

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As I posted my answer so did you! – Sylar Dec 08 '15 at 07:25
I'll mark yours correct in few minutes – Sylar Dec 08 '15 at 07:27

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '15 at 07:47

Here's an alternative method using gsub:

h = "hello world and good morning"
h.gsub(/(?<=\A|\s)\w/, &:upcase)
# => "Hello World And Good Morning"

It basically runs the upcase method on any "word character" (\w) that comes after either the start of the string (\A) or a space (\s).

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 08 '15 at 07:24

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If there a post elsewhere on this website then you can close this but I have found the answer:

h.split.map(&:capitalize).join(' ')
#=> Hello World And Good Morning

answered Dec 08 '15 at 07:24

Sylar

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Iterating Over Each Word In a String in Ruby

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