Problem 44499. Capitilize the first letter of every word in a string

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goc3 on 13 Jul 2018

Additional test cases have been added.

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J.R.! Menzinger on 15 Jun 2021 at 13:13

nice internal reference to the match.
a simple improvement could be to parse "s" as input and write "lower($0(2:..." in the replacement string.

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bainhome on 29 Mar 2018

two steps in one op, nicely done!

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