First of all: no, this is not #6801!
Instead, I just wanted to point out that the current strings.Title() implementation is a 'quick & dirty' way of dealing with titles; it does not respect proper English rules for title naming (although it might be appropriate for some languages, I don't know).
A suggestion was made on the Go Cookbook to implement it thusly:
func properTitle(input string) string {
words := strings.Fields(input)
smallwords := " a an on the to "
for index, word := range words {
if strings.Contains(smallwords, " "+word+" ") {
words[index] = word
} else {
words[index] = strings.Title(word)
}
}
return strings.Join(words, " ")
}
This is a clever and neat trick, and could be used for other languages as well (ex. in Portuguese the smallwords would have to include " de do da dos das " but possibly exclude "a" since that is by coincidence also a definite article, etc.).
The authors of the Go Cookbook did not seem to add a suggestion here, so I'm doing it 🙂
First of all: no, this is not #6801!
Instead, I just wanted to point out that the current
strings.Title()implementation is a 'quick & dirty' way of dealing with titles; it does not respect proper English rules for title naming (although it might be appropriate for some languages, I don't know).A suggestion was made on the Go Cookbook to implement it thusly:
This is a clever and neat trick, and could be used for other languages as well (ex. in Portuguese the
smallwordswould have to include " de do da dos das " but possibly exclude "a" since that is by coincidence also a definite article, etc.).The authors of the Go Cookbook did not seem to add a suggestion here, so I'm doing it 🙂