string.rb revision 38d27d8b88234125c7142989369be07db649684f
#
# Extensions to the String class
#
class String
# Creates a space-separated sequence of lower-case tokens such as "nice pizza ontology"
# from a sequence of title-case tokens such as "NicePizzaOntology", "Nice-Pizza-Ontology"
# or "Nice_Pizza_Ontology".
#
def from_titlecase_to_spacedlowercase
self.gsub(/::/, '/').
gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1 \2').
gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1 \2').
tr("_-", " ").
downcase
end
def encoding_utf8
self.force_encoding("UTF-8").encode("utf-8", "binary", :undef => :replace)
end
end