Title case is a style of writing that is used for the titles of articles, books, movies, and other works. The rules for writing in title case are:
1) Always capitalize the first word.
2) Capitalize all words except the following parts of speech:
- articles – a, an, the
- coordinating conjunctions – and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet
- short prepositions – to, in, up, from etc
Examples:
Input : The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Output : The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog. Input : A tale of two cities Output : A Tale of Two Cities
Algorithm :
- Make a list of all the words that have to be in lower case.
- For every word in the input, check whether it is in the above list or not.
- If yes then ignore the word, if no then capitalize its first character.
The implementation of the above algorithm is:
# Function to convert into title case def generateTitleCase(input_string): # list of articles articles = ["a", "an", "the"] # list of coordinating conjunctins conjunctions = ["and", "but", "for", "nor", "or", "so", "yet"] # list of some short articles prepositions = ["in", "to", "for", "with", "on", "at", "from", "by", "about", "as", "into", "like", "through", "after", "over", "between", "out", "against", "during", "without", "before", "under", "around", "among", "of"] # merging the 3 lists lower_case = articles + conjunctions + prepositions # variable declaration for the output text output_string = "" # separating each word in the string input_list = input_string.split(" ") # checking each word for word in input_list: # if the word exists in the list # then no need to capitalize it if word in lower_case: output_string += word + " " # if the word does not exists in # the list, then capitalize it else: temp = word.title() output_string += temp + " " return output_string # Driver code if __name__=='__main__': input_text1 = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." input_text2 = "A tale of two cities" print(generateTitleCase(input_text1)) print(generateTitleCase(input_text2)) |
Output :
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog. A Tale of Two Cities
