SPUG: regular expressions

[Randy Rue]

Bear with me for a newbie question, I'm right at the second regex 
chapeter in Learning Pearl and this question caught my attention:

What does the (\w) in the pattern do to the \b word separator? I thought 
it might give whitespace as the word delimiter (and so keep words like 
"that's" as a single word) but the output still comes out as "That'S."

How else could I treat contractions?

Randy Rue

Jeremy Mates wrote:
> * luis medrano <lmzaldivar at gmail.com>
> 
>>perl is number one
>>to
>>Perl Is Number One
> 
> 
> Quick, dirty, and possibly missing all sorts of edge cases:
> 
> echo test ing | perl -pe 's/\b(\w)/\U$1/g'
> 
> Depending on what you are doing, also consider {case => title} or {case
> => highlight} of the nifty Text::Autoformat module.
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Text::Autoformat
> 
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