Re: word boundary \b (regular expression) in Lua

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Shmuel Zeigerman wrote:
> Zhe Hu wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am wondering how to turn "the cat in the hat" into "The Cat In The
> > Hat" in pure Lua.
> string.gsub (s, "(%w+)", function(a) return
>   string.upper(string.sub(a,1,1)) .. string.sub(a,2) end)

Yet shorter:

string.gsub (s, "(%w)(%w*)", function(a,b) return
  string.upper(a) .. b end)

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Shmuel