Make the next character of a space as capital

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Capitalize First Char of Each Word in a String Java

I have a string "abc def ghi" , I want to make it as "Abc Def Ghi".Similarly I also have a string like "abc def" and I want to make it "Abc Def".In java how is it possible?

Can you clarify if you are interested only in ascii characters? If not then answer will be not that trivial as it sounds. — Madhava Gaikwad, Oct 22 '10 at 08:06

codaddict · Answer 1 · 2010-10-22T07:46:37.490

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You can make use of the capitalize method from the WordUtils class of ACL.

edited Oct 22 '10 at 07:46

answered Oct 22 '10 at 07:41

codaddict

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 22 '10 at 07:42

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System.out.println(
  org.apache.commons.lang.WordUtils.capitalize(
    "yellow fox jumped over brown foot"
  )
);

output:

Yellow Fox Jumped Over Brown Foot

answered Oct 22 '10 at 07:42

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 22 '10 at 08:03

This may not be the most effective, but may give you a starting point:

public String capitalize(String original) {
        String[] parts = original.split(" ");

        StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();

        for (String part : parts) {
            String firstChar = part.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase();
            result.append(firstChar + part.substring(1));
            result.append(" ");
        }

        String capitalized = result.toString();

        return capitalized.substring(0, capitalized.length()-1);
}

However the answer from codaddict is much better :) – Sergii Pozharov Oct 22 '10 at 08:04 — Sergii Pozharov, Oct 22 '10 at 08:04

Make the next character of a space as capital

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