[thelist] Regex apostrophe problem

[Anthony]

What language?

Perl has functions for uppercase and lowercase: 

uc($text) and a lc($text) function, which should
already ignore special characters.

If you must use regexp:

$lower =~ s/(\w)(\w+)/\u$1\L$2/sig;



--- fstorr <fffrancis at fstorr.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I'm trying to write a regex that will change the
> case of text from  
> all upper to title case so, from BOB O'NEIL to Bob
> O'Neil.  I'm  
> getting stuck where apostrophes come into play as
> the N after the  
> apostrophe needs to be capitalised along with the
> preceding O.  I've  
> got this so far:
> 
> Find: ([\w]{1})([\w]+)
> Replace: $1\L\$
> 
> But don't know how to deal with the apostrophes.  Is
> it possible to  
> do this, and if so, how?
> 
> regards
> 
> Francis
> 
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