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ucwords in JavaScript - Equivalent to PHP's ucwords() Returns a string with the first letter in upper case of each word.
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ucwords.js
String.prototype.ucwords = function() {
str = this.toLowerCase();
return str.replace(/(^([a-zA-Z\p{M}]))|([ -][a-zA-Z\p{M}])/g,
function(s){
return s.toUpperCase();
});
};
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JorisDebonnet commented Oct 12, 2020 •
edited

Careful though, that last one doesn't work in Safari. For some reason, it doesn't support lookbehind regex.
So I am now using (' '+str).replace(/ [\w]/g, a => a.toLocaleUpperCase()).trim(); ...

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