In my application, you can submit a street address, and in the front end I convert it all to lowercase to be stored in the database. Now when I fetch the data I get an address that looks like: "1 pleasant valley drive"
Can I make a regex to capitalize the first letter of each word in the string?
End goal: "1 Pleasant Valley Dr"
I'm currently using:
let addrFormat =
address?.split(" ")[0] +" " +
address?.split(" ")[1].charAt(0).toUpperCase() +
address?.split(" ")[1].substring(1) +
" " + address?.split(" ")[2].charAt(0).toUpperCase() +
address?.split(" ")[2].substring(1);
but I need it to scale. lets say the street address is:
1234 Rocky Mountain Road
Then I have a problem with my code because it wont capitalize the last word.
You can simply uppercase the letters that aren't proceeded by a word character.
This can be checked with a word-boundary \b
let address = "1 pleasant valley drive";
address = address.replace(/\b(\w)/g, (m,g) => g.toUpperCase())
console.log(address);