String conversion

[Bob Beasley]

Any suggestions on converting a string to proper case?
ex: bob becomes Bob
I'm aware of string.toLowerCase()
and string.toUpperCase()
Thanks
Bob

[Cindy Glass]

Well, Microsoft does that in MSWord and the NEVER seem to get it right :roll:
Good Luck

[Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi]

Here's what i got for ya:

public class StringProper
{
    
    public static String toProper(String theString)
    {
        //convert first letter to uppercase
        String firstLetter = "" +  theString.charAt(0); //make it a String so we can use the String methods.
        firstLetter = firstLetter.toUpperCase();
        
            //return this if you only want to change the first letter to upper case and nothing else
        //return firstLetter + theString.substring(1,theString.length());
            
        //make all the letters in theString Lower case
        String theStringLower = theString.toLowerCase();
        
        ///make the return string
        return firstLetter + theStringLower.substring(1,theString.length() );
    }//end toProper
       
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        //test this method
        String [] strArray = new String[10];
        strArray[0] = "bob";
        strArray[1] = "MARY";
        strArray[2] = "johN";
        strArray[3] = "IbRahIm";
        strArray[4] = "susaN";
        strArray[5] = "fjdkal";
        strArray[6] = "KDLerklKDoer";
        strArray[7] = "C#sucks";
        strArray[8] = "IHateVB";
        strArray[9] = "YouLOVEJava";
        
        for(int i = 0; i < strArray.length; i++)
        {
            System.out.println(strArray[i] + "-->" + StringProper.toProper(strArray[i] ) );
        }//end for
    }//end main
}//end StringProper

This only works for one word. I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but I assume this will help a little.

[Neil Laurance]

Another example:

import java.util.StringTokenizer;
public class Capitalize {
  public static String capitalize(String input) {
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(input.toLowerCase());
    sb.replace(0,1, sb.substring(0,1).toUpperCase());
    return sb.toString();
  }
  public static String capitalizeAll(String input) {
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(input.toLowerCase());
    while(st.hasMoreTokens()) {
      String token = st.nextToken();
      sb.append(token.substring(0,1).toUpperCase());
      sb.append(token.substring(1,token.length()));
      if(st.hasMoreTokens())
        sb.append(" ");
    }
    return sb.toString();
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String[] test = new String[] {
      "this is a TEST",
      "AnotHER test",
      "oNe More test"
    };
    for(int i = 0; i < test.length ; i++) {
      System.out.println(capitalize(test[i]));
      System.out.println(capitalizeAll(test[i]));
    }
  }
}

Cheers, Neil :roll: :roll: