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iTony on 05/22/08


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Nice Caps Titles

Published in: JavaScript 

URL: http://ejohn.org/files/titleCaps.js

I haven't take a very good look to the code, but I put it here for future reference.

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  1. /*
  2.  * Title Caps
  3.  * 
  4.  * Ported to JavaScript By John Resig - http://ejohn.org/ - 21 May 2008
  5.  * Original by John Gruber - http://daringfireball.net/ - 10 May 2008
  6.  * License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
  7.  */
  8.  
  9. (function(){
  10. 	var small = "(a|an|and|as|at|but|by|en|for|if|in|of|on|or|the|to|v[.]?|via|vs[.]?)";
  11. 	var punct = "([!\"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@[\\\\\\]^_`{|}~-]*)";
  12.  
  13. 	this.titleCaps = function(title){
  14. 		var parts = title.split(/([:.;?!] |(?: |^)["Ò])/);
  15.  
  16. 		for ( var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++ ) {
  17. 			parts[i] = parts[i]
  18. 			.replace(/\b([A-Za-z][a-z.'Õ]*)\b/g, function(all){
  19. 				return /[A-Za-z]\.[A-Za-z]/.test(all) ? all : upper(all);
  20. 			})
  21. 			.replace(RegExp("\\b" + small + "\\b", "ig"), lower)
  22. 			.replace(RegExp("^" + punct + small + "\\b", "ig"), function(all, punct, word){
  23. 				return punct + upper(word);
  24. 			})
  25. 			.replace(RegExp("\\b" + small + punct + "$", "ig"), upper);
  26. 		}
  27.  
  28. 		return parts.join("").replace(/ V(s?)\. /ig, " v$1. ")
  29. 			.replace(/(['Õ])S\b/ig, "$1s")
  30. 			.replace(/\b(AT&T|Q&A)\b/ig, function(all){
  31. 				return all.toUpperCase();
  32. 			});
  33. 	};
  34.  
  35. 	function lower(word){
  36. 		return word.toLowerCase();
  37. 	}
  38.  
  39. 	function upper(word){
  40. 	  return word.substr(0,1).toUpperCase() + word.substr(1);
  41. 	}
  42. })();

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