Convert some characters of a string to uppercase

[evaduli]

hello, i want to convert some characters of a string to uppercase. For example if the string that is read from the keyboard is :"Now it's time to act!" , i want to get the string "Now It's Time To Act!" . Can anyone help me,please?

[KevinWorkman]

What have you tried? Where are you stuck?

[evaduli]

i tried to do something like this:
for(int i=0;i<s.length();i++){
if(check) {
s.toUpperCase();
}
if(s.charAt(i)== ' '){
check=true;
}
else
check=false;
}
System.out.println(s.toUpperCase());
}
But this converts the whole string to uppercase. i thought that only if the character is :' ' ,it will convert the character to uppercase.

[Norm]

The toUpperCase method converts the contents of the whole String object. If you only want to change one char in the String, you will need to find a way to get to that one char.

[evaduli]

i want to transform the first letter of each word belonging to a string into a capital letter.

[Norm]

A couple of ways to do it:
Break the String up into parts, change the letter and then put the String back together.
Put the String into a StringBuffer or StringBuilder, scan the buffer and change the letters and then create a new String from the StringBuffer.

[evaduli]

could you please write how to do it because i have some problem?

[Norm]

I think the reason for your assignment is for you to learn how to program. You won't learn if I do the work.

Describe how you are trying to solve the problem and Post your code with the problems you are having.

[evaduli]

i tried this:

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.lang.String;
import java.lang.Character;
public class exercise4 {

	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
		String s = in.nextLine();
		boolean check=true;
		char[] array = new char[s.length()];
		
		for(int i=0;i<s.length();i++){
			if(Character.isLetter(s.charAt(i))){
				System.out.print(s.charAt(i));
			}else{
				System.out.println("");
				array[i]=s.charAt(i);
				array = s.toCharArray();
			}
			if(check) {
				   
				   s.toUpperCase();		   
			}
				if(s.charAt(i)== ' '){
					check=true;
				}
				else
					check=false;
		}
		System.out.println(s.toUpperCase());

	}
}

[Norm]

You did not answer my questioh: Describe how you are trying to solve the problem.

How does your code get the characters one at a time?
How does it determine if a character should be converted to uppercase?
How does it test if that character is upper or lower case
how does it change that character to uppercase?

How does it create the result String using the characters it looked at one by one?

[evaduli]

i also tried to do this:if the character is ' ' , i should call the toUpperCase method and make this character uppercase. but this doesnot work

[Norm]

Post the code where you try to change the case of one character.
Given this:
char aChar = 'a';

show how you would change the value of aChar to 'A'.

You still have not answered this:
Describe how you are trying to solve the problem.

[evaduli]

import java.lang.Character;

char aChar = 'a';
System.out.println(Character.toUpperCase(aChar));

[Norm]

Now put it all together.
Describe/list the steps the program must do to solve this problem.

[evaduli]

import java.lang.String;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main{

public static void main(String[] args){
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
String s = in.nextLine();


for(int i=0;i<s.length();i++){
s.toUpperCase();
}
System.out.println(s.toUpperCase());
}

}

[Norm]

Don't write any code until you know what the code is supposed to do.
Before you write any more code, respond to this:

Describe/list the steps the program must do to solve this problem.

See post#10 for some ideas

[evaduli]

This code that i wrote reads a string from the keyboard, then it converts the characters of the string to uppercase and finally it prints the string with the uppercase characters

[Norm]

Is the problem solved then? Does the program do what you want it to do?

[evaduli]

no, if the problem was solved, i wouldn't be there.
i want the first character of each word to be uppercase not all the characters of the string.

[JosAH]

no, if the problem was solved, i wouldn't be there.
i want the first character of each word to be uppercase not all the characters of the string.

Do you know how to convert a single character to upper case? (hint: see the Character class and its static methods)

kind regards,

Jos