Python's string.capwords in JavaScript

Here’s what our current JavaScript equivalent to Python's string.capwords looks like.

module.exports = functioncapwords (str) {
//  discuss at: https://locutus.io/python/capwords/
// original by: Jonas Raoni Soares Silva (https://www.jsfromhell.com)
// improved by: Waldo Malqui Silva (https://waldo.malqui.info)
// improved by: Robin
// improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (https://kvz.io)
// bugfixed by: Onno Marsman (https://twitter.com/onnomarsman)
//    input by: James (https://www.james-bell.co.uk/)
//   example 1: capwords('kevin van  zonneveld')
//   returns 1: 'Kevin Van  Zonneveld'
//   example 2: capwords('HELLO WORLD')
//   returns 2: 'HELLO WORLD'
const pattern = /^([a-z\u00E0-\u00FC])|\s+([a-z\u00E0-\u00FC])/g
return (str + '').replace(pattern, function ($1) {
return $1.toUpperCase()
  })
}

How to use

You you can install via npm install locutus and require it via require('locutus/python/string/capwords'). You could also require the string module in full so that you could access string.capwords instead.

If you intend to target the browser, you can then use a module bundler such as Parcel, webpack, Browserify, or rollup.js. This can be important because Locutus allows modern JavaScript in the source files, meaning it may not work in all browsers without a build/transpile step. Locutus does transpile all functions to ES5 before publishing to npm.

A community effort

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This way of working also means that we don't offer any production guarantees, and recommend to use Locutus inspiration and learning purposes only.

Examples

Please note that these examples are distilled from test cases that automatically verify our functions still work correctly. This could explain some quirky ones.

Ehm.. Only 5 Python functions in all of Locutus?

We could still assimilate many more functions to this language. We only just rolled out multilingual support to Locutus. If you fancy a challenge, we'd love your help expanding that. For instance, you could:

• Get inspiration from the Python 3 standard library string page.
• Click "New file" in the appropriate folder on GitHub. This will fork the project to your account, directly add the file to it, and send a Pull Request to us.

We will then review it. If it's useful to the project and in line with our contributing guidelines your work will become part of Locutus and you'll be automatically credited in the authors section accordingly.

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