/** * Transforms a string to title case. * * @param {string} str The string to transform. * @returns {string} A string transformed to title case. */ export const toTitleCase = (str: string): string => { return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function (txt) { return ( txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substring(1).replace(/_/g, " ").toLowerCase() ); }); }; /** * Convert a string to a excerpt. * * @param {string} txt The text to convert. * @param {number} maxLen (optional) The maximum length of the excerpt. * @param {boolean} strip (optional) Strip HTML tags from the text. * @param stripHtml * @returns {string} The excerpt. */ export const excerpt = ( txt: string, maxLen: number = 150, stripHtml: boolean = true ): string => { if (stripHtml) { txt = stripHtmlTags(replaceHtmlEntites(txt)); } const txtPieces = txt.split(" "); const excerptPieces: string[] = []; let curLen = 0; txtPieces.every((itm) => { if (curLen + itm.length >= maxLen) { return false; } excerptPieces.push(itm); curLen += itm.length + 1; return true; }); return excerptPieces.join(" ") + (curLen < txt.length ? "..." : ""); }; /** * String HTML tags from text. * * @param {string} txt The text to strip tags. * @returns {string} The stripped text. */ export const stripHtmlTags = (txt: string): string => { txt = txt.replace(/<(p|br)([ /]*?>|[ /]+.*?>)/g, " "); return txt.replace(/<[a-zA-Z/][^>]+(>|$)/g, ""); }; /** * Replace HTML entities with real characters. * * @param {string} txt The text to transform. * @returns {string} Transformed text */ export const replaceHtmlEntites = (txt: string): string => { const translate_re = /&(nbsp|amp|quot|lt|gt);/g; const translate = { nbsp: " ", amp: "&", quot: '"', lt: "<", gt: ">", }; return txt.replace(translate_re, function (match, entity) { return translate[entity]; }); };