startcase

Capitalize the first letter of each word in a string.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/string-startcase

Usage

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

startcase( str )

Capitalizes the first letter of each word in a string.

var str = startcase( 'beep boop a foo bar' );
// returns 'Beep Boop A Foo Bar'

Examples

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

var str = startcase( 'beep boop foo bar' );
// returns 'Beep Boop Foo Bar'

str = startcase( 'Beep' );
// returns 'Beep'

str = startcase( 'BeEp' );
// returns 'BeEp'

str = startcase( '$**_beep_BoOp_**$' );
// returns '$**_beep_BoOp_**$'

str = startcase( '' );
// returns ''

See Also

• @stdlib/string-startcase-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.
• @stdlib/string-lowercase: convert a string to lowercase.
• @stdlib/string-uppercase: convert a string to uppercase.

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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