Generate an acronym for a given string.
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> Generate an acronym for a given string.
``bash`
npm install @stdlib/string-acronym
`javascript`
var acronym = require( '@stdlib/string-acronym' );
#### acronym( str\[, options] )
Generates an acronym for a given string.
`javascript
var out = acronym( 'the quick brown fox' );
// returns 'QBF'
out = acronym( 'Hard-boiled eggs' );
// returns 'HBE'
`
The function accepts the following options:
- stopwords: list of custom stop words. If not specified, the function uses a default set of stop words from the English language that were deemed words one would likely want to exclude from the acronym generation (a subset of the stop words from [@stdlib/datasets/stopwords-en][@stdlib/datasets/stopwords-en]).
By default, the function uses a list of common English stop words. To use a custom list, set the stopwords option.
`javascript
var out = acronym( 'the quick brown fox', {
'stopwords': []
});
// returns 'TQBF'
out = acronym( 'the quick brown fox', {
'stopwords': [ 'the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox' ]
});
// returns ''
`
`javascript
var acronym = require( '@stdlib/string-acronym' );
var str = 'Test-driven development';
var out = acronym( str );
// returns 'TDD'
str = 'Industrial Business Machines';
out = acronym( str );
// returns 'IBM'
str = 'National Aeronautics and Space Administration';
out = acronym( str );
// returns 'NASA'
str = 'To be determined...';
out = acronym( str, {
'stopwords': []
});
// returns 'TBD'
`
- [@stdlib/string-acronym-cli][@stdlib/string-acronym-cli]: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.
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