equivalent of python's string.title() in julia

[julialan...@gmail.com]

in python, "abc def ghi jkl".title() capitalizes each "word" in the string, giving 'Abc Def Ghi Jkl' as the result

i have not been able to find a similar string function in julia, so i'm currently doing this:

julia> join(map(ucfirst, split("abc def ghi jkl")), " ")

"Abc Def Ghi Jkl"

is there a better / more straightforward julia-based solution?

thanks for any suggestion!

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le jeudi 04 février 2016 à 17:31 -0800, julialan...@gmail.com a
écrit :

I wouldn't call it "straightforward", but if you need a Unicode-correct
way of applying title case, you can use UnicodeExtras, which relies on
ICU:
https://github.com/nolta/UnicodeExtras.jl#case-handling

Title case hasn't been implemented in base yet, though it's been
mentioned in the past:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/11471
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/774


Regards

[Stefan Karpinski]

Since there was talk of removing uppercase and lowercase altogether (I was against this), I felt it would be pushing it to add titlecase, but a good PR to do this would be welcomed.

[Ismael Venegas Castelló]

You can do something like:

title(s::AbstractString) = join([ucfirst(w) for w in split(s, ' ')], ' ')::typeof(s)

[Ismael Venegas Castelló]

I made this IJulia gist:

bit.ly/JLTitle

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 4:06:40 AM UTC-5, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:

> is there a better / more straightforward julia-based solution?
I wouldn't call it "straightforward", but if you need a Unicode-correct
way of applying title case, you can use UnicodeExtras, which relies on
ICU:
https://github.com/nolta/UnicodeExtras.jl#case-handling

utf8proc (which is used internally for Unicode transformations by Julia) has Unicode-aware titlecase mapping, but we don't currently export that; would require an easy PR similar to https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc/pull/40