capitalizing the first letter in a text after split

Question

Is there an easy way to capitalize the first letter of each word after "-" in a string and leave the rest of string intact?

x="hi there-hello world from Python - stackoverflow"

expected output is

x="Hi there-Hello world from Python - Stackoverflow"

what I tried is :

"-".join([i.title() for i in x.split("-")]) #this capitalize the first letter in each word; what I want is only the first word after split

Note: "-" isn't always surrounded by spaces

Possible duplicate of [Capitalize the first letter after a punctuation](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28639677/capitalize-the-first-letter-after-a-punctuation) — Jim G., Oct 22 '19 at 17:04
[title](https://python-reference.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/str/title.html) returns the string in Title Case. — DoesData, Oct 22 '19 at 17:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '19 at 17:13

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You can do this with a regular expression:

import re

x = "hi there-hello world from Python - stackoverflow"
y = re.sub(r'(^|-\s*)(\w)', lambda m: m.group(1) + m.group(2).upper(), x)

print(y)

answered Oct 22 '19 at 17:13

gen_Eric

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '19 at 17:11

0

try this:

"-".join([i.capitalize() for i in x.split("-")])

answered Oct 22 '19 at 17:11

Milad Barazandeh

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 22 '19 at 17:33

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Basically what @Milad Barazandeh did but another way to do it

answered Oct 22 '19 at 17:33

Waqar Bin Kalim

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