abbreviate strings in style of R: Abbreviate
npm install abbreviateabbreviate strings in style of
R: Abbreviate
``sh`
npm install --save abbreviate
`js
abbreviate = require('abbreviate')
// abbreviate(string, opts)
// opts:
// length (default 3)
// keepSeparators (default false) - keeps all separators between words
// strict (default true) - if false, overwrites length to include all words
abbr = abbreviate('Some Important String', {length: 8})
// abbr: 'SmImpStr'
// which chars will be included for varying length?
// [S,o ,m,e , ,I,m,p,o ,r,t ,a ,n ,t , ,S,t,r,i ,n ,g ]
// [1,16,6,17,20,2,7,8,18,9,10,19,11,12,21,3,4,5,13,14,15]
`What it does
In this order:
- trims the string
- removes word separators (
- removes lowercase vocals
- removes lowercase consonants
- removes uppercase vocals
- removes uppercase consonants and numbers
- removes word beginnings (looks for digraphs, trigraphs and blends)