Converting a String to uppercase?

[Jamie Cotton]

Hiya All

If I have a String such as String temp = "this is an example" How do I convert the start of each of the words within the string to uppercase so the output would be "This Is An Example"?

Any help would be greatfull

Cheers

[Elouise Kivineva]

Why don't you capitalize the first letter and then read through the string and each time you find a blank space, capitolize the NEXT letter

[marc weber]

I don't know of any existing methods for this, so I guess I would index through each char in the String and check to see if it's a space or lowercase char. Finding a space would set a flag allowing the next character to be converted to uppercase if needed. (This should initially be set to true in order to allow the first letter to be capitalized.)

Note that chars can be treated as numeric values (although you'll need to cast back to type char after performing arithmetic on them). Uppercase letters A-Z are represented by numeric values 65-90, and lowercase (a-z) are represented by 97-122. So if you have a lowercase value, you can convert it to uppercase by subtracting 32. (Ensure first that the char you have is, in fact, within that lowercase range.) A space is represented by 32.

Ref: http://www.lookuptables.com/

To avoid creating numerous String objects, you might want to use a StringBuffer (or StringBuilder in Java 1.5).
[ April 06, 2005: Message edited by: marc weber ]

[Andy Donatelo]

Consider using a StringTokenizer to break your String based on the � � (empty space) and capitalize the first letter of each token.

[Joel McNary]

...or the String.split() method (1.4+ ), instead of a StringTokenizer.

[Jamie Cotton]

Hiya thankyou all for your input i have now managed to do it

 
String convertString(String temp) 
{
String parts[] = temp.split(" ");
String result = "";
for (int i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) 
{
parts[i] = Character.toString(parts[i].charAt(0)).toUpperCase() + parts[i].substring(1, parts[i].length());
result += parts[i] + " ";
}

result = result.substring(0, result.length() - 1); //delete the last " "
return result;
    }