Release v0.1.2: Added Connect section and new functions

Author: nilkanth02

CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to the FunStrings package will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## [0.1.2] - 2024-05-01
+
+### Added
+- Connect section in README with GitHub and LinkedIn links
+- Added 5 Data Cleaning Functions:
+  - `remove_html_tags`: Strip all HTML tags from text
+  - `remove_emojis`: Remove emojis from text
+  - `remove_special_characters`: Keep only letters and numbers
+  - `expand_contractions`: Convert contractions like "don't" to "do not"
+  - `correct_whitespace`: Remove weird spaces, tabs, newlines
+
+- Added 5 Text Analysis Helpers:
+  - `unique_words`: Return list of unique words
+  - `most_common_word`: Return most frequent word
+  - `sentence_count`: Number of sentences in text
+  - `average_sentence_length`: Average words per sentence
+  - `character_ratio`: Uppercase/lowercase/number ratio
+
+- Added 4 ML/NLP Preprocessing Functions:
+  - `generate_ngrams`: Generate list of n-grams
+  - `strip_accents`: Remove accents (café → cafe)
+  - `lemmatize_text`: Reduce words to base form
+  - `is_ascii`: Check if text only contains ASCII
+
+- Added 5 Validation Functions:
+  - `is_valid_email`: Validate if a string is a proper email
+  - `is_valid_url`: Validate if a string is a proper URL
+  - `is_valid_ip`: Check if string is a valid IP address
+  - `is_valid_date`: Check if a string matches a date format
+  - `contains_special_characters`: Check if special symbols are present
+
+### Documentation
+- Updated README.md with new function categories
+- Added examples for all new functions
+- Created new example file: v0.1.1_functions_demo.py
+- Added comprehensive test suite for new functions
+
+## [0.1.1] - 2024-04-23
+
+### Added
+- Added badges to README.md (PyPI version, downloads, Python versions, license, etc.)
+- Added Table of Contents to README.md for better navigation
+- Added Contributing section to README.md
+- Added License section to README.md
+- Created CHANGELOG.md file to track changes
+
+### Changed
+- Renamed package from "stringfun" to "funstrings"
+- Updated all import statements and references in documentation
+- Improved README.md with more detailed information
+
+## [0.1.0] - 2024-04-22
+
+### Added
+- Initial release of the package
+- Basic string operations (reverse, count vowels/consonants, palindrome check, etc.)
+- Text analysis functions (word frequencies, longest/shortest word, etc.)
+- String transformation functions (snake_to_camel, camel_to_snake, rotate, shuffle, etc.)
+- Pattern-based functions (extract numbers/emails/URLs, mask sensitive data, etc.)
+- Comprehensive documentation and examples
+- Educational tutorials for beginners and students