String Title case

[bugger]

Hi,

I use toUpperCase() adn toLowerCase() when needed. I want a String to be in title case, that is, first letter in caps and the remaining in lower case.

Is there a way of doing it?

Cheers.

[JAdmin]

String manipulation is one of the easiest process in Java, yet confusing sometimes. There are many build-in methods available with String class itself. Manipulating words in a String can be done by using java.text.BreakIterator. BreakIterator can be used to find the location of boundaries in text. The below example shows how to break a String into words.

import java.text.BreakIterator;

BreakIterator wordBreaker = BreakIterator.getWordInstance();
String str = "life is good";
wordBreaker.setText(str);
int end = 0;

for(int start = wordBreaker.first();
(end= wordBreaker.next()) != BreakIterator.DONE; start=end){
String word = str.substring(start, end)
//System.out.println(word);
}

The code above becomes useful, when we need to get a list of words in a String, to capitalize first letter in each word, to get first letter of each word etc.


Hope this helps!

[tim]

Hello bugger.

I wrote this program for you:

import java.util.*;
public class Main{
	public static void main(String[] arg){
		String test = "hEllo EveRyOne";
		System.out.println("Original: " + test);
		System.out.println("String: " + title(test));
		pause();
	}
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]	public static String title(String string){
		String result = "";
		for (int i = 0; i < string.length(); i++){
			String next = string.substring(i, i + 1);
			if (i == 0){
				result += next.toUpperCase();
			} else {
				result += next.toLowerCase();
			}
		}
		return result;
	}[/COLOR]
	protected static void pause(){
		Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
		scanner.nextLine();
	}
}

The blue method should help you. ;)

[tim]

String manipulation is one of the easiest process in Java, yet confusing sometimes. There are many build-in methods available with String class itself. Manipulating words in a String can be done by using java.text.BreakIterator. BreakIterator can be used to find the location of boundaries in text. The below example shows how to break a String into words.

import java.text.BreakIterator;

BreakIterator wordBreaker = BreakIterator.getWordInstance();
String str = "life is good";
wordBreaker.setText(str);
int end = 0;

for(int start = wordBreaker.first();
(end= wordBreaker.next()) != BreakIterator.DONE; start=end){
String word = str.substring(start, end)
//System.out.println(word);
}

The code above becomes useful, when we need to get a list of words in a String, to capitalize first letter in each word, to get first letter of each word etc.


Hope this helps!

I understood the problem differently. Bugger, you can choose which reply will help you. My code will capitalize the first character in a string. :D

[bugger]

Thanks all of you. I appreciate this.

I just tried tim's code. Works fine :)

Thanks a dozen.

[dmjones500]

Also see WordUtils.capitalize() from Apache Commons Lang.

[JosAH]

Also see WordUtils.capitalize() from Apache Commons Lang.

Please let this old, dead thread rest. (I'm closing it now)

kind regards,

Jos