DescTools (version 0.99.52)

StrCap: Capitalize the First Letter of a String

Description

Capitalize the first letter of each element of the string vector.

Usage

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

Value

Returns a vector of charaters with the first letter capitalized

Arguments

x

string to be capitalized.

method

one out of "first" (default), "word", "title". "first" will only capitalize the first character of a string. "word" will capitalize all found words and "title" will also capitalize wordwise, but leave out: a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, s, or and nor.)

Author

Charles Dupont <[e-mail]>, Andri Signorell <[e-mail]> (methods word and title)

Examples

# capitalize first character
StrCap(c("Hello", "bob", "daN"))
# but not all...
StrCap(c("Hello bob, how are you?", "And you, DANIEL?"))

# wordwise
StrCap(c("Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents",
              "but Up and UP, not all and all", NA), method="word")

# wordwise omitting the ones listed above
StrCap(c("Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents",
         "but Up and UP, not all and all", NA), method="title")

# do not touch non alphabetic characters
z <- c("Lorem ipsum dolor", "-- sit amet", "consectetur --", " adipiscing elit ",
       "sed,.--(do) / +-*eiusmod")
StrCap(z, method="title")