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Regex to match a set of words--but only if they don't appear at the beginning of the string or line
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| /** | |
| * When formatting a string in title case, we capitalize the all words except articles, conjunctions, | |
| * copulae (forms of "to be"), and prepositions (with four or fewer characters). | |
| * The first and last words are always capitalized. | |
| * | |
| * Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Title_case | |
| * | |
| * This regex uses a negative lookahead to only match the keywords if they aren't at the beginning of a line. | |
| * Note that this regex uses the multiline flag, indicating to match each line, not just the entire string. | |
| * | |
| * Additional resources: | |
| * - https://titlecaseconverter.com | |
| * - https://saijogeorge.com/title-case-converter/ | |
| */ | |
| /(?<!^)(\b(A|Am|Amid|An|And|Are|As|At|Atop|Be|Been|But|By|Down|For|From|In|Into|Is|Like|Mid|Near|Next|Nor|Of|Off|On|Onto|Or|Out|Over|Past|Per|Plus|Pro|Sans|Save|So|Than|The|Till|To|Unto|Up|Upon|Via|Vice|Vs|Was|Were|With|Yet)\b)+/gm |
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