How can I capitalize the first letter of each word?

Question

I need a script in any language to capitalize the first letter of every word in a file.

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Answer 1

A simple perl script that does this: (via http://www.go4expert.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2138)

sub ucwords {
  $str = shift;
  $str = lc($str);
  $str =~ s/\b(\w)/\u$1/g;
  return $str;
}

while () {
    print ucwords $_;
}

Then you call it with

perl ucfile.pl < srcfile.txt > outfile.txt