David Gouch's String#toTitleCase() for Node.js

This is a fork of David Gouch's excellent String#toTitleCase() method inspired by John Gruber's post on the topic

I've simply taken it off the String prototype and exported it from a simple module.

1var toTitleCase = require('titlecase')
2
3console.log(toTitleCase('foo bar baz'))

See Gouch's page with inline converter. Also see this excellent table of test case results for different converters.

In addition, I've added a more comprehensive list of words to not capitalise that includes articles, prepositions and conjunctions (see source files for lists), I'm calling this "lax title case", use it like so:

1var toLaxTitleCase = require('titlecase').toLaxTitleCase
2
3console.log(toLaxTitleCase('foo bar baz'))

Using as an executable

Install with npm install titlecase -g and you'll get a to-title-case executable that you can run to titlecase strings:

$ to-title-case "what is this thing?"
What Is This Thing?

Original README:

To Title Case for JavaScript

Instructions: Include the to-title-case.js script and use the new .toTitleCase() method on the string you want converted.

History

2.1 / 2013-11-03

• Acknowledge characters outside of US-ASCII
• Fix bug related to hyphenated small words
• Replace baby's first testing script with the QUnit framework

2.0.1 / 2012-01-06

• Fixed IE 7 breakage introduced in 2.0. Don't treat strings like character arrays.

2.0 / 2012-01-06

• 15% less code and 35% easier to understand.
• Small words list moved to variable for easy modification.
• Test titles rewritten to focus on a single issue per title.
• More braces to make style guides and JSLint happier.

License

Copyright © 2008–2013 David Gouch. Licensed under the MIT License.

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