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First letter in a sentence dosn’t work in javascript (empty variable in string at a first place)

I use this (I guess typical) function to make a first letter in a sentece capital:

function firstLetteCap(string) {
return string.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + string.slice(1) }

Works perfect till there is an empty variable:

// This works perfect
first = "just"
sentence = `${first} a string`
document.getElementById("p2").innerHTML = `${firstLetteCap(sentence)}.`

// With an empty variable it doesn’t work (capitalized "a" expected)
first = ""
sentence = `${first} a string`
document.getElementById("p3").innerHTML = `${firstLetteCap(sentence)}.`

I would like to know how to fix that, but maybe some context would be also perfect (maybe I don’t get something on how the strings works with variables).

Expected: Just a string.

Thanks!

CodePen: https://codepen.io/vojtacejnek/pen/eYybRqg

Solution

  • Since, first letter of the sentence variable is (space).

    first = ""
sentence = `${first} a string`
document.getElementById("p3").innerHTML = `${firstLetteCap(sentence)}.`

    If you want to ignore the extra spaces, you can use .trim().

    Refer: https://www.w3schools.com/java/ref_string_trim.asp