Merge branch 'master' into next

[sup] / lib / sup / util.rb

diff --git a/lib/sup/util.rb b/lib/sup/util.rb
index dbcffcc5951356dec2c533393ba100b4071b8eac..c54a2c0db2b47efdc547000cc0ed9f8974536960 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/sup/util.rb
+++ b/lib/sup/util.rb
@@ -188,11 +188,6 @@ class String
     ret
   end
 
-  ## one of the few things i miss from perl
-  def ucfirst
-    self[0 .. 0].upcase + self[1 .. -1]
-  end
-
   ## a very complicated regex found on teh internets to split on
   ## commas, unless they occurr within double quotes.
   def split_on_commas
@@ -276,6 +271,11 @@ class String
   def normalize_whitespace
     gsub(/\t/, "    ").gsub(/\r/, "")
   end
+
+  ## takes a space-separated list of words, and returns an array of symbols.
+  ## typically used in Sup for translating Ferret's representation of a list
+  ## of labels (a string) to an array of label symbols.
+  def symbolistize; split.map { |x| x.intern } end
 end
 
 class Numeric