startCase removes ampersand, all symbols

[benterprise]

_.startCase("one & two") returns "One Two", ideally it'd return "One & Two". Is there a workaround?

[jdalton]

Hi @benterprise!

Is there a workaround?

Not for our casing methods. They break a string into words and then apply transformations on them.

[KidA001]

Odd that this method is destructive in terms that it removes characters. I would have expected it to title case what it can and leave everything else.

[mukeshkamboj]

@benterprise this is workaround.

 "JHON&JOHN C/O DR. BLah".replace(/\w+/g, _.capitalize);

result:-

"Jhon&John C/O Dr. Blah"

This is a late response but just mentioned if anyone who come across such issue can get the solution.

[animir]

This is weird. If function's name is startCase, then the only thing developer expects from it is making all words' first letter in capital case.

I see, this behaviour is shown in examples in docs, but still not clear. It should be clearly mentioned in docs, that it removes any spec symbols.

The best would be to have some option to disable removing spec symbols.

Thanks.

[thefilmmaking]

I have to agree with the comments. Had to use the workaround mentioned by mukesh. I can imagine the usefulness of removing all the spec symbols, but I'd say split that into a separate function.

[seanlindo]

This caused a mess in our search engine...we really were not expecting this to be a destructive operation.

[dhasilva]

Completely agree. A function called startCase should do just that and nothing else.
My case is with diacritics: 'não' becomes 'Nao'. That makes absolutely no sense.

[chryssajones]

@benterprise's workaround didn't work for me because it capitalized the first letter after a diacritical mark: pōmaikaʻi becomes "PōMaikaʻI", which is not the desired result. You could exclude all of the possible diacritical letter variations, and that would (in theory) work, but it seems that it would be better if startCase just did not strip punctuation. Agree that should be a different function. Please update!

[DarioLopes]

And yet as of late 2019, it still not working as expected... for once I started to try this tool a little more deeper and it isn't working

[jdalton]

Hi folks!

In v5 we will revisit this.