Some Sass string functions: capitalize, ucwords, camelize, ...

SassMeister-input.scss

// ----
// Sass (v3.3.4)
// Compass (v1.0.0.alpha.18)
// ----

// Capitalize string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @param [string] $string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @return [string]

@function capitalize($string) {
  @return to-upper-case(str-slice($string, 1, 1)) + str-slice($string, 2);
}

// Alias
@function str-ucfirst($string) {
  @return capitalize($string);
}



// Uncapitalize string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @param [string] $string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @return [string]

@function uncapitalize($string) {
  @return to-lower-case(str-slice($string, 1, 1)) + str-slice($string, 2);
}

// Alias
@function str-lcfirst($string) {
  @return uncapitalize($string);
}



// Capitalize each word in string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @param [string] $string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @return [string]

@function str-ucwords($string) {
  $progress: $string;
  $result: "";

  $running: true;

  @while $running {
    $index: str-index($progress, " ");
    @if $index {
      $result: $result + capitalize(str-slice($progress, 1, $index));
      $progress: str-slice($progress, ($index + 1));
    }
    @else {
      $running: false;
    }
  }

  @return capitalize($result) + capitalize($progress);
}



// Return whether `$value` is contained in `$list`
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @param [list] $list
// @param [$value] $value
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @return [boolean]

@function contain($list, $value) {
  @return not not index($list, $value);
}



// Camelize string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @param [string] $string
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// @return [string]

@function camelize($string) {
  $progress: $string;
  $result: "";
  $exclude: " ", "-", "–", "—", "_", ",", ";", ":", ".";
  
  @while str-length($progress) > 0  {
    $char: str-slice($progress, 1, 1);

    @if contain($exclude, $char) {
      $progress: capitalize(str-slice($progress, 2, 2)) + str-slice($progress, 3);
    }
    @else {
      $result: $result + $char;
      $progress: str-slice($progress, 2);
    }
 }
  
  @return $result;
}



sass {
  capitalize: capitalize("hello");
  uncapitalize: uncapitalize("HELLO");
  ucwords: str-ucwords("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.");
  camelize: camelize("my-function-name");
  camelize: camelize("Another class constructor.");
}

SassMeister-output.css

sass {
  capitalize: "Hello";
  uncapitalize: "hELLO";
  ucwords: "Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet, Consectetur Adipisicing Elit, Sed Do Eiusmod Tempor Incididunt Ut Labore Et Dolore Magna Aliqua.";
  camelize: "myFunctionName";
  camelize: "AnotherClassConstructor";
}