Capitalize Strings

Capitalizes character strings in different ways: first letter, each word, or title case.

Usage

strCap(x, method = c("first", "word", "title"))

Arguments

x

a character vector

method

character string specifying the capitalization method:

• "first": capitalize the first letter of the string

• "word": capitalize the first letter of each word

• "title": title case, excluding common stopwords

Value

A character vector with capitalized strings.

Details

The function uses Unicode-aware transformations from the stringi package.

For method = "title", common stopwords (e.g., "a", "the", "of") remain lowercase unless they appear as part of another word.

See also

stringi::stri_trans_totitle(), stringi::stri_split_boundaries()

string-overview for an overview of all string utilities in pharos.

Examples

x <- c("hello world", "the lord of the rings")

# first letter
strCap(x, "first")
#> [1] "Hello World"           "The Lord Of The Rings"

# each word
strCap(x, "word")
#> [1] "Hello World"           "The Lord Of The Rings"

# title case
strCap(x, "title")
#> [1] "Hello World"           "the Lord of the Rings"