acronym

Generate an acronym for a given string.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/string-acronym

Usage

var acronym = require( '@stdlib/string-acronym' );

acronym( str[, options] )

Generates an acronym for a given string.

var out = acronym( 'the quick brown fox' );
// returns 'QBF'

out = acronym( 'Hard-boiled eggs' );
// returns 'HBE'

The function accepts the following options:

• stopwords: list of custom stop words. If not specified, the function uses a default set of stop words from the English language that were deemed words one would likely want to exclude from the acronym generation (a subset of the stop words from @stdlib/datasets/stopwords-en).

By default, the function uses a list of common English stop words. To use a custom list, set the stopwords option.

var out = acronym( 'the quick brown fox', {
    'stopwords': []
});
// returns 'TQBF'

out = acronym( 'the quick brown fox', {
    'stopwords': [ 'the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox' ]
});
// returns ''

Examples

var acronym = require( '@stdlib/string-acronym' );

var str = 'Test-driven development';
var out = acronym( str );
// returns 'TDD'

str = 'Industrial Business Machines';
out = acronym( str );
// returns 'IBM'

str = 'National Aeronautics and Space Administration';
out = acronym( str );
// returns 'NASA'

str = 'To be determined...';
out = acronym( str, {
    'stopwords': []
});
// returns 'TBD'

See Also

• @stdlib/string-acronym-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

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