abbreviate

abbreviate strings in style of R: Abbreviate

Install

npm install --save abbreviate

Usage

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 (/\s\-_,/) (unless keepSeparators is true)
• removes lowercase vocals
• removes lowercase consonants
• removes uppercase vocals
• removes uppercase consonants and numbers
• removes word beginnings (looks for digraphs, trigraphs and blends)

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Paul Pflugradt Licensed under the MIT license.