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First letter of each word in a string and punctuation

Input: Aliquam ipsum ex, tempus ornare semper ac, varius vitae nibh.

Output: A i e, t o s a, v v n.

I need a javascript function to solve this.

I'm trying something like this:

function short_verse(verse) {
  let result = [];

  verse.split(' ').map(word => word.charAt(0) != '' ? result.push(word.charAt(0)) : '');

  return result.join(" ");
}

let input = "Aliquam ipsum ex, tempus ornare semper ac, varius vitae nibh.",
  output = short_verse(input);

console.log(output);

The story: They say you can memorize texts this way. :) So, I create an application that will include this feature, too.

It should work for non-ascii chars, too. Example:

Input: Aliqușam țipsum ex, tempăs ornâre semper ac, varius vitae îbh.

Output: A ț e, t o s a, v v î

Note: In my case romanian diacritics would be enough - ăâîșțĂÂÎȘȚ.

almost 3 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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We can use a regex replacement approach here:

var input = "Aliquam ipsum ex, tempus ornare semper ac, varius vitae nibh.";
var output = input.replace(/(\w)\w*/g, "$1");
console.log(output);

almost 3 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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If you are using only word characters, you can keep the first character and remove the rest of the word characters.

\B matches a non word boundary and \w+ matches 1 or more word characters:

const s = "Aliquam ipsum ex, tempus ornare semper ac, varius vitae nibh.";
console.log(s.replace(/\B\w+/g, ""));

For the updated question, you can capture leading chars other than any letter or whitespace char, followed by a single letter. Follow optional letters that should be removed, and use capture group 1 in the replacement.

([^\p{L}\s]*\p{L})\p{L}*

See the regex matching in this regex demo.

[
  "Dumnezeu a zis: „Să fie o întindere între ape, și ea să despartă apele de ape.”",
  "Aliqușam țipsum ex, tempăs ornâre semper ac, varius vitae îbh.",
  "Aliquam ipsum ex, tempus ornare semper ac, varius vitae nibh."
].forEach(s =>
  console.log(s.replace(/([^\p{L}\s]*\p{L})\p{L}*/gu, "$1"))
)

almost 3 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report

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The following function should work for characters, numbers and symbols. The magic is in the regex; [a-zA-ZÀ-ÿăâîșțĂÂÎȘȚ]+ extracts all unique words that contain alphanumeric and romanian alphabet characters (as per question request), \s extracts all space characters as we want to preserve the spacing and finally ^\w\s extracts all non-alphanumeric and non-space characters - a.k.a symbols:

function short_verse(verse) {
  let result = [];
  const tokens = verse.match(/([a-zA-ZÀ-ÿăâîșțĂÂÎȘȚ]+)|(\s)|[^\w\s]/g);
  const firstChars = tokens.map((token) => token.charAt(0));
  return firstChars.join('');
}

let input1 = "Aliquam ipsum ex, tempus ornare semper ac, varius vitae nibh.";
console.log(short_verse(input1));
let input2 = "Să fie o întindere între ape, și ea să despartă apele de ape."
console.log(short_verse(input2));

almost 3 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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