Re: Any algorithm to preserve whitespaces?
 

On 19/01/13 21:13, Santosh Kumar wrote:
> I have a working script which takes argv[1] as an input, deassembles
> each line, and then each word. Then after it capitalizes all its word
> (upcases the first letter) and then prints it out on the stdout.
>
> That script does the capitalization work fine, but, when it reassemble
> the the words, it does it like this:
>
> lines.append(' '.join(words))
>
> The biggest problem is, even when the input file has many spaces, it
> strips it down to one.

replace:

words = line.split()

with:
words = line.split(' ')

> The whole script will look clumsy here. I have put it up on GitHub,
> here is it:
https://github.com/santosh/capitaliz...ter/capitalizr

In general, when the script is just this short, it's better to put it
directly on the message.