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Title Caps (JavaScript)
/*
* Title Caps
*
* Ported to JavaScript By John Resig - http://ejohn.org/ - 21 May 2008
* Original by John Gruber - http://daringfireball.net/ - 10 May 2008
* License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
*/
(function(){
var small = "(a|an|and|as|at|but|by|en|for|if|in|of|on|or|the|to|v[.]?|via|vs[.]?)";
var punct = "([!\"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@[\\\\\\]^_`{|}~-]*)";
this.titleCaps = function(title){
var parts = [], split = /[:.;?!] |(?: |^)["Ò]/g, index = 0;
while (true) {
var m = split.exec(title);
parts.push( title.substring(index, m ? m.index : title.length)
.replace(/\b([A-Za-z][a-z.'Õ]*)\b/g, function(all){
return /[A-Za-z]\.[A-Za-z]/.test(all) ? all : upper(all);
})
.replace(RegExp("\\b" + small + "\\b", "ig"), lower)
.replace(RegExp("^" + punct + small + "\\b", "ig"), function(all, punct, word){
return punct + upper(word);
})
.replace(RegExp("\\b" + small + punct + "$", "ig"), upper));
index = split.lastIndex;
if ( m ) parts.push( m[0] );
else break;
}
return parts.join("").replace(/ V(s?)\. /ig, " v$1. ")
.replace(/(['Õ])S\b/ig, "$1s")
.replace(/\b(AT&T|Q&A)\b/ig, function(all){
return all.toUpperCase();
});
};
function lower(word){
return word.toLowerCase();
}
function upper(word){
return word.substr(0,1).toUpperCase() + word.substr(1);
}
})();
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