Question:
Input:-gandhi output:- Gandhi
Input:-mahatma gandhi output:- M. Gandhi
Input:-Mohndas Karamchand ganDhi output:- M. K. Gandhi
Answer:
public class Chef_NITIKA {
static Scanner scan=new Scanner(System.in);
public static void main(String[] args) {
String name= myString();
System.out.println("nam is :"+name);
mySformatter(name);
}
private static void mySformatter(String name) {
int count=0;
for(char c:name.toCharArray()){
if(c==' '){
count+=1;
}
}
System.out.println(count+" blank spaces");
if(count==0){
char ch=name.charAt(0);
name=Character.toUpperCase(ch)+name.substring(1);
System.out.println("nam is :"+name);
}
else if(count==1){
char ch=name.charAt(0);
name= name.replace(' ', '.');
String subname=name.substring(name.indexOf(".")+1);
char c=subname.charAt(0);
subname=Character.toUpperCase(c)+subname.substring(1);
name=Character.toUpperCase(ch)+"."+subname;
System.out.println("nam is :"+name);
}
else if(count==2){
char ch=name.charAt(0);
// name= name.replace(' ', '.');
String subname=name.substring(name.indexOf(" ")+1);
System.out.println(subname);
String subsubname=subname.substring(name.indexOf(" "));
System.out.println(subsubname);
char c=subname.charAt(0);
char c1=subsubname.charAt(0);
subname=Character.toUpperCase(c)+subname.substring(1);
name = Character.toUpperCase(ch)+"."+Character.toUpperCase(c)+"."+Character.toUpperCase(c1)+subsubname.substring(1);
System.out.println("nam is :"+name);
}
}
private static String myString() {
System.out.println("enter the string");
String s=scan.nextLine();
StringBuffer name=new StringBuffer();
// name.append(s);
return s;
}
}
I am not getting the desired output when i type "abc cde fgh" i get the output as A.C..fgh
Is there any efficient way to solve this problem?
undesired output:-
enter the string
iam writing onStack
nam is :iam writing onStack
2 blank spaces
writing onStack
ing onStack
nam is :I.W.Ing onStack
I want the output as I.W.OnStack
Just split the name into components and then form the abbreviations you want:
public static String getName(String input) {
String[] names = input.split("\\s+");
String output = "";
// replace 1st through second to last names with capitalized 1st letter
for (int i=names.length; i > 1; --i) {
output += names[names.length - i].substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + ". ";
}
// append full last name, first letter capitalized, rest lower case
output += names[names.length - 1].substring(0, 1).toUpperCase()
+ names[names.length - 1].substring(1).toLowerCase();
return output;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(getName("gandhi"));
System.out.println(getName("mahatma gandhi"));
System.out.println(getName("Mohndas Karamchand ganDhi"));
}
Output:
Gandhi
M. Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi
Demo here:
Rextester
Update:
Here is a link to a demo where I have corrected your original code, at least partially. The issue was the following line:
String subsubname = subname.substring(name.indexOf(" "));
which I changed to this:
String subsubname = subname.substring(subname.indexOf(" ") + 1);
You were not correctly identifying the first character of the third portion of the name. This being said, your current approach is verbose, hard to read, and inflexible. In practice, you would probably want to use a leaner approach to this problem.
/*
* To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
* To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/
package stack;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
/**
*
* #author xxz
*/
public class NAmes {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
final String name = sc.nextLine();
System.out.println(formatedString(name));
sc.close();
}
private static String formatedString(String name) {
if(name!=null && name.length()!=0){
final StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(name, " ");
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder("");
while(tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()){
StringBuilder currentToken =new StringBuilder(tokenizer.nextToken());
if(!tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()){
result.append(currentToken.toString().toUpperCase());
} else{
result.append(currentToken.toString().toUpperCase().charAt(0)+". ");
}
}
return result.toString();
}
return "";
}
}
#Rushabh Oswal you can get desired result by below method
private static void mySformatter(String name) {
String [] tempArray=name.split(" ");
StringBuilder outputStr=new StringBuilder();
int len=tempArray.length;
for(int i=0;i<len;i++){
String str=tempArray[i];
if (str.isEmpty())
continue;
if(i==len-1)
outputStr.append(Character.toUpperCase(str.charAt(0))).append(str.substring(1).toLowerCase());
else
outputStr.append(Character.toUpperCase(str.charAt(0))).append(". ");
System.out.println(outputStr.toString());
}
I am writing a spell checker that takes a text file as input and outputs the file with spelling corrected.
The program should preserve formatting and punctuation.
I want to split the input text into a list of string tokens such that each token is either 1 or more: word, punctuation, whitespace, or digit characters.
For example:
Input:
words.txt:
asdf don't ]'.'..;'' as12....asdf.
asdf
Input as list:
["asdf" , " " , "don't" , " " , "]'.'..;''" , " " , "as" , "12" ,
"...." , "asdf" , "." , "\n" , "asdf"]
Words like won't and i'll should be treated as a single token.
Having the data in this format would allow me to process the tokens like so:
String output = "";
for(String token : tokens) {
if(isWord(token)) {
if(!inDictionary(token)) {
token = correctSpelling(token);
}
}
output += token;
}
So my main question is how can i split a string of text into a list of substrings as described above? Thank you.
The main difficulty here would be to find the regex that matches what you consider to be a "word". For my example I consider ' to be part of a word if it's proceeded by a letter or if the following character is a letter:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String in = "asdf don't ]'.'..;'' as12....asdf.\nasdf";
//The pattern:
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[\\p{Alpha}][\\p{Alpha}']*|'[\\p{Alpha}]+");
Matcher m = p.matcher(in);
//If you want to collect the words
List<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
Now find something from the start
int pos = 0;
while(m.find(pos)) {
//Add everything from starting position to beginning of word
result.append(in.substring(pos, m.start()));
//Handle dictionary logig
String token = m.group();
words.add(token); //not used actually
if(!inDictionary(token)) {
token = correctSpelling(token);
}
//Add to result
result.append(token);
//Repeat from end position
pos = m.end();
}
//Append remainder of input
result.append(in.substring(pos));
System.out.println("Result: " + result.toString());
}
Because I like solving puzzles, I tried the following and I think it works fine:
public class MyTokenizer {
private final String str;
private int pos = 0;
public MyTokenizer(String str) {
this.str = str;
}
public boolean hasNext() {
return pos < str.length();
}
public String next() {
int type = getType(str.charAt(pos));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while(hasNext() && (str.charAt(pos) == '\'' || type == getType(str.charAt(pos)))) {
sb.append(str.charAt(pos));
pos++;
}
return sb.toString();
}
private int getType(char c) {
String sc = Character.toString(c);
if (sc.matches("\\d")) {
return 0;
}
else if (sc.matches("\\w")) {
return 1;
}
else if (sc.matches("\\s")) {
return 2;
}
else if (sc.matches("\\p{Punct}")) {
return 3;
}
else {
return 4;
}
}
public static void main(String... args) {
MyTokenizer mt = new MyTokenizer("asdf don't ]'.'..;'' as12....asdf.\nasdf");
while(mt.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(mt.next());
}
}
}
I need your help in adding whitespace before a string as I need to format the String value to be in a specific position in the page. For example:
System.out.println(" Hello Word!!");
The above will give 10 spaces before the String which I did them manual, but is there any other way to specify the space before the String other than adding manual spaces?
Consider this as your code....
public static void main(String[] args) {
String hello = "hello";
Brute b = new Brute();
System.out.println( b.addspace(1,hello));
}
String addspace(int i, String str)
{
StringBuilder str1 = new StringBuilder();
for(int j=0;j<i;j++)
{
str1.append(" ");
}
str1.append(str);
return str1.toString();
}
This will add desired no of spaces in the string at its beginning...
Just pass your input String and no of spaces needed....
As addspace(<no_of_spaces>,<input_string>);
String newStr = String.format("%10s", str);
String str = "Hello Word!!";
String.format("%1$" + (10 + str.length()) + "s", str);
Result:
| Hello Word!!|
10 whitespaces added
You can write your own fumction:
public static void main(String[] args) {
String myString = "Hello Word!!";
System.out.println(getWhiteSpace(10)+myString);
}
private static String getWhiteSpace(int size) {
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(size);
for(int i = 0; i <size ; i++) {
builder.append(' ');
}
return builder.toString();
}
This may be useful to you,
String s = "%s Hellow World!";
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for(int i=0;i<10;i++){
builder.append(" ");
}
System.out.println(s.format(s,builder.toString()));
You can change the modify the count of space in the for loop.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
class spaceBeforeString
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
String str="Hello";
for(int i=0;i<10;i++)
{
str=" "+str;
}
System.out.println(str);
}
}
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
class AddSpaceDemo
{
String str;
int noOfSpaces;
Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in);
void getInput()
{
System.out.println("Enter the string before which the space is to be added: ");
str=sc.next();
System.out.println("Enter the no. of spaces to be added before the string: ");
noOfSpaces=sc.nextInt();
}
String addSpaceBefore()
{
for(int i=0;i<noOfSpaces;i++)
{
str=" "+str;
}
return str;
}
}
class AddSpace
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
String s;
AddSpaceDemo a=new AddSpaceDemo();
a.getInput();
s=a.addSpaceBefore();
System.out.println("String after adding whitespace before string: ");
System.out.println(s);
}
}
I'm making a basic Java POS System. You set how many characters fits on the paper width and it align both to the left and to the right.
public class Main {
int width = 32;
public static void main(String[] args) {
String dash = "--------------------------------";
String item = "COMPANY NAME";
String price = "00.00";
String string = alignment(item, price);
String description = "123-456-7890";
String tax = "0.00";
String string2 = alignment(description, tax);
System.out.println(dash);
System.out.println(string);
System.out.println(string2);
}
private static String alignment(String item, String price) {
String s = "";
s += item;
int x = 0;
while(x < width - item.length() - price.length()) {
s += " ";
x++;
}
s += price;
return s;
}
}
Is there a function built into Java that capitalizes the first character of each word in a String, and does not affect the others?
Examples:
jon skeet -> Jon Skeet
miles o'Brien -> Miles O'Brien (B remains capital, this rules out Title Case)
old mcdonald -> Old Mcdonald*
*(Old McDonald would be find too, but I don't expect it to be THAT smart.)
A quick look at the Java String Documentation reveals only toUpperCase() and toLowerCase(), which of course do not provide the desired behavior. Naturally, Google results are dominated by those two functions. It seems like a wheel that must have been invented already, so it couldn't hurt to ask so I can use it in the future.
WordUtils.capitalize(str) (from apache commons-text)
(Note: if you need "fOO BAr" to become "Foo Bar", then use capitalizeFully(..) instead)
If you're only worried about the first letter of the first word being capitalized:
private String capitalize(final String line) {
return Character.toUpperCase(line.charAt(0)) + line.substring(1);
}
The following method converts all the letters into upper/lower case, depending on their position near a space or other special chars.
public static String capitalizeString(String string) {
char[] chars = string.toLowerCase().toCharArray();
boolean found = false;
for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
if (!found && Character.isLetter(chars[i])) {
chars[i] = Character.toUpperCase(chars[i]);
found = true;
} else if (Character.isWhitespace(chars[i]) || chars[i]=='.' || chars[i]=='\'') { // You can add other chars here
found = false;
}
}
return String.valueOf(chars);
}
Try this very simple way
example givenString="ram is good boy"
public static String toTitleCase(String givenString) {
String[] arr = givenString.split(" ");
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
sb.append(Character.toUpperCase(arr[i].charAt(0)))
.append(arr[i].substring(1)).append(" ");
}
return sb.toString().trim();
}
Output will be: Ram Is Good Boy
I made a solution in Java 8 that is IMHO more readable.
public String firstLetterCapitalWithSingleSpace(final String words) {
return Stream.of(words.trim().split("\\s"))
.filter(word -> word.length() > 0)
.map(word -> word.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + word.substring(1))
.collect(Collectors.joining(" "));
}
The Gist for this solution can be found here: https://gist.github.com/Hylke1982/166a792313c5e2df9d31
String toBeCapped = "i want this sentence capitalized";
String[] tokens = toBeCapped.split("\\s");
toBeCapped = "";
for(int i = 0; i < tokens.length; i++){
char capLetter = Character.toUpperCase(tokens[i].charAt(0));
toBeCapped += " " + capLetter + tokens[i].substring(1);
}
toBeCapped = toBeCapped.trim();
I've written a small Class to capitalize all the words in a String.
Optional multiple delimiters, each one with its behavior (capitalize before, after, or both, to handle cases like O'Brian);
Optional Locale;
Don't breaks with Surrogate Pairs.
LIVE DEMO
Output:
====================================
SIMPLE USAGE
====================================
Source: cApItAlIzE this string after WHITE SPACES
Output: Capitalize This String After White Spaces
====================================
SINGLE CUSTOM-DELIMITER USAGE
====================================
Source: capitalize this string ONLY before'and''after'''APEX
Output: Capitalize this string only beforE'AnD''AfteR'''Apex
====================================
MULTIPLE CUSTOM-DELIMITER USAGE
====================================
Source: capitalize this string AFTER SPACES, BEFORE'APEX, and #AFTER AND BEFORE# NUMBER SIGN (#)
Output: Capitalize This String After Spaces, BeforE'apex, And #After And BeforE# Number Sign (#)
====================================
SIMPLE USAGE WITH CUSTOM LOCALE
====================================
Source: Uniforming the first and last vowels (different kind of 'i's) of the Turkish word D[İ]YARBAK[I]R (DİYARBAKIR)
Output: Uniforming The First And Last Vowels (different Kind Of 'i's) Of The Turkish Word D[i]yarbak[i]r (diyarbakir)
====================================
SIMPLE USAGE WITH A SURROGATE PAIR
====================================
Source: ab 𐐂c de à
Output: Ab 𐐪c De À
Note: first letter will always be capitalized (edit the source if you don't want that).
Please share your comments and help me to found bugs or to improve the code...
Code:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
public class WordsCapitalizer {
public static String capitalizeEveryWord(String source) {
return capitalizeEveryWord(source,null,null);
}
public static String capitalizeEveryWord(String source, Locale locale) {
return capitalizeEveryWord(source,null,locale);
}
public static String capitalizeEveryWord(String source, List<Delimiter> delimiters, Locale locale) {
char[] chars;
if (delimiters == null || delimiters.size() == 0)
delimiters = getDefaultDelimiters();
// If Locale specified, i18n toLowerCase is executed, to handle specific behaviors (eg. Turkish dotted and dotless 'i')
if (locale!=null)
chars = source.toLowerCase(locale).toCharArray();
else
chars = source.toLowerCase().toCharArray();
// First charachter ALWAYS capitalized, if it is a Letter.
if (chars.length>0 && Character.isLetter(chars[0]) && !isSurrogate(chars[0])){
chars[0] = Character.toUpperCase(chars[0]);
}
for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
if (!isSurrogate(chars[i]) && !Character.isLetter(chars[i])) {
// Current char is not a Letter; gonna check if it is a delimitrer.
for (Delimiter delimiter : delimiters){
if (delimiter.getDelimiter()==chars[i]){
// Delimiter found, applying rules...
if (delimiter.capitalizeBefore() && i>0
&& Character.isLetter(chars[i-1]) && !isSurrogate(chars[i-1]))
{ // previous character is a Letter and I have to capitalize it
chars[i-1] = Character.toUpperCase(chars[i-1]);
}
if (delimiter.capitalizeAfter() && i<chars.length-1
&& Character.isLetter(chars[i+1]) && !isSurrogate(chars[i+1]))
{ // next character is a Letter and I have to capitalize it
chars[i+1] = Character.toUpperCase(chars[i+1]);
}
break;
}
}
}
}
return String.valueOf(chars);
}
private static boolean isSurrogate(char chr){
// Check if the current character is part of an UTF-16 Surrogate Pair.
// Note: not validating the pair, just used to bypass (any found part of) it.
return (Character.isHighSurrogate(chr) || Character.isLowSurrogate(chr));
}
private static List<Delimiter> getDefaultDelimiters(){
// If no delimiter specified, "Capitalize after space" rule is set by default.
List<Delimiter> delimiters = new ArrayList<Delimiter>();
delimiters.add(new Delimiter(Behavior.CAPITALIZE_AFTER_MARKER, ' '));
return delimiters;
}
public static class Delimiter {
private Behavior behavior;
private char delimiter;
public Delimiter(Behavior behavior, char delimiter) {
super();
this.behavior = behavior;
this.delimiter = delimiter;
}
public boolean capitalizeBefore(){
return (behavior.equals(Behavior.CAPITALIZE_BEFORE_MARKER)
|| behavior.equals(Behavior.CAPITALIZE_BEFORE_AND_AFTER_MARKER));
}
public boolean capitalizeAfter(){
return (behavior.equals(Behavior.CAPITALIZE_AFTER_MARKER)
|| behavior.equals(Behavior.CAPITALIZE_BEFORE_AND_AFTER_MARKER));
}
public char getDelimiter() {
return delimiter;
}
}
public static enum Behavior {
CAPITALIZE_AFTER_MARKER(0),
CAPITALIZE_BEFORE_MARKER(1),
CAPITALIZE_BEFORE_AND_AFTER_MARKER(2);
private int value;
private Behavior(int value) {
this.value = value;
}
public int getValue() {
return value;
}
}
Using org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils makes it very simple.
capitalizeStr = StringUtils.capitalize(str);
From Java 9+
you can use String::replaceAll like this :
public static void upperCaseAllFirstCharacter(String text) {
String regex = "\\b(.)(.*?)\\b";
String result = Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(text).replaceAll(
matche -> matche.group(1).toUpperCase() + matche.group(2)
);
System.out.println(result);
}
Example :
upperCaseAllFirstCharacter("hello this is Just a test");
Outputs
Hello This Is Just A Test
With this simple code:
String example="hello";
example=example.substring(0,1).toUpperCase()+example.substring(1, example.length());
System.out.println(example);
Result: Hello
I'm using the following function. I think it is faster in performance.
public static String capitalize(String text){
String c = (text != null)? text.trim() : "";
String[] words = c.split(" ");
String result = "";
for(String w : words){
result += (w.length() > 1? w.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase(Locale.US) + w.substring(1, w.length()).toLowerCase(Locale.US) : w) + " ";
}
return result.trim();
}
Use the Split method to split your string into words, then use the built in string functions to capitalize each word, then append together.
Pseudo-code (ish)
string = "the sentence you want to apply caps to";
words = string.split(" ")
string = ""
for(String w: words)
//This line is an easy way to capitalize a word
word = word.toUpperCase().replace(word.substring(1), word.substring(1).toLowerCase())
string += word
In the end string looks something like
"The Sentence You Want To Apply Caps To"
This might be useful if you need to capitalize titles. It capitalizes each substring delimited by " ", except for specified strings such as "a" or "the". I haven't ran it yet because it's late, should be fine though. Uses Apache Commons StringUtils.join() at one point. You can substitute it with a simple loop if you wish.
private static String capitalize(String string) {
if (string == null) return null;
String[] wordArray = string.split(" "); // Split string to analyze word by word.
int i = 0;
lowercase:
for (String word : wordArray) {
if (word != wordArray[0]) { // First word always in capital
String [] lowercaseWords = {"a", "an", "as", "and", "although", "at", "because", "but", "by", "for", "in", "nor", "of", "on", "or", "so", "the", "to", "up", "yet"};
for (String word2 : lowercaseWords) {
if (word.equals(word2)) {
wordArray[i] = word;
i++;
continue lowercase;
}
}
}
char[] characterArray = word.toCharArray();
characterArray[0] = Character.toTitleCase(characterArray[0]);
wordArray[i] = new String(characterArray);
i++;
}
return StringUtils.join(wordArray, " "); // Re-join string
}
public static String toTitleCase(String word){
return Character.toUpperCase(word.charAt(0)) + word.substring(1);
}
public static void main(String[] args){
String phrase = "this is to be title cased";
String[] splitPhrase = phrase.split(" ");
String result = "";
for(String word: splitPhrase){
result += toTitleCase(word) + " ";
}
System.out.println(result.trim());
}
1. Java 8 Streams
public static String capitalizeAll(String str) {
if (str == null || str.isEmpty()) {
return str;
}
return Arrays.stream(str.split("\\s+"))
.map(t -> t.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + t.substring(1))
.collect(Collectors.joining(" "));
}
Examples:
System.out.println(capitalizeAll("jon skeet")); // Jon Skeet
System.out.println(capitalizeAll("miles o'Brien")); // Miles O'Brien
System.out.println(capitalizeAll("old mcdonald")); // Old Mcdonald
System.out.println(capitalizeAll(null)); // null
For foo bAR to Foo Bar, replace the map() method with the following:
.map(t -> t.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + t.substring(1).toLowerCase())
2. String.replaceAll() (Java 9+)
ublic static String capitalizeAll(String str) {
if (str == null || str.isEmpty()) {
return str;
}
return Pattern.compile("\\b(.)(.*?)\\b")
.matcher(str)
.replaceAll(match -> match.group(1).toUpperCase() + match.group(2));
}
Examples:
System.out.println(capitalizeAll("12 ways to learn java")); // 12 Ways To Learn Java
System.out.println(capitalizeAll("i am atta")); // I Am Atta
System.out.println(capitalizeAll(null)); // null
3. Apache Commons Text
System.out.println(WordUtils.capitalize("love is everywhere")); // Love Is Everywhere
System.out.println(WordUtils.capitalize("sky, sky, blue sky!")); // Sky, Sky, Blue Sky!
System.out.println(WordUtils.capitalize(null)); // null
For titlecase:
System.out.println(WordUtils.capitalizeFully("fOO bAR")); // Foo Bar
System.out.println(WordUtils.capitalizeFully("sKy is BLUE!")); // Sky Is Blue!
For details, checkout this tutorial.
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.println("Enter the sentence : ");
try
{
String str = br.readLine();
char[] str1 = new char[str.length()];
for(int i=0; i<str.length(); i++)
{
str1[i] = Character.toLowerCase(str.charAt(i));
}
str1[0] = Character.toUpperCase(str1[0]);
for(int i=0;i<str.length();i++)
{
if(str1[i] == ' ')
{
str1[i+1] = Character.toUpperCase(str1[i+1]);
}
System.out.print(str1[i]);
}
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
}
I decided to add one more solution for capitalizing words in a string:
words are defined here as adjacent letter-or-digit characters;
surrogate pairs are provided as well;
the code has been optimized for performance; and
it is still compact.
Function:
public static String capitalize(String string) {
final int sl = string.length();
final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(sl);
boolean lod = false;
for(int s = 0; s < sl; s++) {
final int cp = string.codePointAt(s);
sb.appendCodePoint(lod ? Character.toLowerCase(cp) : Character.toUpperCase(cp));
lod = Character.isLetterOrDigit(cp);
if(!Character.isBmpCodePoint(cp)) s++;
}
return sb.toString();
}
Example call:
System.out.println(capitalize("An à la carte StRiNg. Surrogate pairs: 𐐪𐐪."));
Result:
An À La Carte String. Surrogate Pairs: 𐐂𐐪.
Use:
String text = "jon skeet, miles o'brien, old mcdonald";
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\b([a-z])([\\w]*)");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
while (matcher.find()) {
matcher.appendReplacement(buffer, matcher.group(1).toUpperCase() + matcher.group(2));
}
String capitalized = matcher.appendTail(buffer).toString();
System.out.println(capitalized);
There are many way to convert the first letter of the first word being capitalized. I have an idea. It's very simple:
public String capitalize(String str){
/* The first thing we do is remove whitespace from string */
String c = str.replaceAll("\\s+", " ");
String s = c.trim();
String l = "";
for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++){
if(i == 0){ /* Uppercase the first letter in strings */
l += s.toUpperCase().charAt(i);
i++; /* To i = i + 1 because we don't need to add
value i = 0 into string l */
}
l += s.charAt(i);
if(s.charAt(i) == 32){ /* If we meet whitespace (32 in ASCII Code is whitespace) */
l += s.toUpperCase().charAt(i+1); /* Uppercase the letter after whitespace */
i++; /* Yo i = i + 1 because we don't need to add
value whitespace into string l */
}
}
return l;
}
package com.test;
/**
* #author Prasanth Pillai
* #date 01-Feb-2012
* #description : Below is the test class details
*
* inputs a String from a user. Expect the String to contain spaces and alphanumeric characters only.
* capitalizes all first letters of the words in the given String.
* preserves all other characters (including spaces) in the String.
* displays the result to the user.
*
* Approach : I have followed a simple approach. However there are many string utilities available
* for the same purpose. Example : WordUtils.capitalize(str) (from apache commons-lang)
*
*/
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
System.out.println("Input String :\n");
InputStreamReader converter = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(converter);
String inputString = in.readLine();
int length = inputString.length();
StringBuffer newStr = new StringBuffer(0);
int i = 0;
int k = 0;
/* This is a simple approach
* step 1: scan through the input string
* step 2: capitalize the first letter of each word in string
* The integer k, is used as a value to determine whether the
* letter is the first letter in each word in the string.
*/
while( i < length){
if (Character.isLetter(inputString.charAt(i))){
if ( k == 0){
newStr = newStr.append(Character.toUpperCase(inputString.charAt(i)));
k = 2;
}//this else loop is to avoid repeatation of the first letter in output string
else {
newStr = newStr.append(inputString.charAt(i));
}
} // for the letters which are not first letter, simply append to the output string.
else {
newStr = newStr.append(inputString.charAt(i));
k=0;
}
i+=1;
}
System.out.println("new String ->"+newStr);
}
}
Here is a simple function
public static String capEachWord(String source){
String result = "";
String[] splitString = source.split(" ");
for(String target : splitString){
result += Character.toUpperCase(target.charAt(0))
+ target.substring(1) + " ";
}
return result.trim();
}
This is just another way of doing it:
private String capitalize(String line)
{
StringTokenizer token =new StringTokenizer(line);
String CapLine="";
while(token.hasMoreTokens())
{
String tok = token.nextToken().toString();
CapLine += Character.toUpperCase(tok.charAt(0))+ tok.substring(1)+" ";
}
return CapLine.substring(0,CapLine.length()-1);
}
Reusable method for intiCap:
public class YarlagaddaSireeshTest{
public static void main(String[] args) {
String FinalStringIs = "";
String testNames = "sireesh yarlagadda test";
String[] name = testNames.split("\\s");
for(String nameIs :name){
FinalStringIs += getIntiCapString(nameIs) + ",";
}
System.out.println("Final Result "+ FinalStringIs);
}
public static String getIntiCapString(String param) {
if(param != null && param.length()>0){
char[] charArray = param.toCharArray();
charArray[0] = Character.toUpperCase(charArray[0]);
return new String(charArray);
}
else {
return "";
}
}
}
Here is my solution.
I ran across this problem tonight and decided to search it. I found an answer by Neelam Singh that was almost there, so I decided to fix the issue (broke on empty strings) and caused a system crash.
The method you are looking for is named capString(String s) below.
It turns "It's only 5am here" into "It's Only 5am Here".
The code is pretty well commented, so enjoy.
package com.lincolnwdaniel.interactivestory.model;
public class StringS {
/**
* #param s is a string of any length, ideally only one word
* #return a capitalized string.
* only the first letter of the string is made to uppercase
*/
public static String capSingleWord(String s) {
if(s.isEmpty() || s.length()<2) {
return Character.toUpperCase(s.charAt(0))+"";
}
else {
return Character.toUpperCase(s.charAt(0)) + s.substring(1);
}
}
/**
*
* #param s is a string of any length
* #return a title cased string.
* All first letter of each word is made to uppercase
*/
public static String capString(String s) {
// Check if the string is empty, if it is, return it immediately
if(s.isEmpty()){
return s;
}
// Split string on space and create array of words
String[] arr = s.split(" ");
// Create a string buffer to hold the new capitalized string
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
// Check if the array is empty (would be caused by the passage of s as an empty string [i.g "" or " "],
// If it is, return the original string immediately
if( arr.length < 1 ){
return s;
}
for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
sb.append(Character.toUpperCase(arr[i].charAt(0)))
.append(arr[i].substring(1)).append(" ");
}
return sb.toString().trim();
}
}
Here we go for perfect first char capitalization of word
public static void main(String[] args) {
String input ="my name is ranjan";
String[] inputArr = input.split(" ");
for(String word : inputArr) {
System.out.println(word.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase()+word.substring(1,word.length()));
}
}
}
//Output : My Name Is Ranjan
For those of you using Velocity in your MVC, you can use the capitalizeFirstLetter() method from the StringUtils class.
String s="hi dude i want apple";
s = s.replaceAll("\\s+"," ");
String[] split = s.split(" ");
s="";
for (int i = 0; i < split.length; i++) {
split[i]=Character.toUpperCase(split[i].charAt(0))+split[i].substring(1);
s+=split[i]+" ";
System.out.println(split[i]);
}
System.out.println(s);
package corejava.string.intern;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
/*
* wap to accept only 3 sentences and convert first character of each word into upper case
*/
public class Accept3Lines_FirstCharUppercase {
static String line;
static String words[];
static ArrayList<String> list=new ArrayList<String>();
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception{
DataInputStream read=new DataInputStream(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter only three sentences");
int i=0;
while((line=read.readLine())!=null){
method(line); //main logic of the code
if((i++)==2){
break;
}
}
display();
System.out.println("\n End of the program");
}
/*
* this will display all the elements in an array
*/
public static void display(){
for(String display:list){
System.out.println(display);
}
}
/*
* this divide the line of string into words
* and first char of the each word is converted to upper case
* and to an array list
*/
public static void method(String lineParam){
words=line.split("\\s");
for(String s:words){
String result=s.substring(0,1).toUpperCase()+s.substring(1);
list.add(result);
}
}
}
If you prefer Guava...
String myString = ...;
String capWords = Joiner.on(' ').join(Iterables.transform(Splitter.on(' ').omitEmptyStrings().split(myString), new Function<String, String>() {
public String apply(String input) {
return Character.toUpperCase(input.charAt(0)) + input.substring(1);
}
}));
String toUpperCaseFirstLetterOnly(String str) {
String[] words = str.split(" ");
StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder();
for(int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
ret.append(Character.toUpperCase(words[i].charAt(0)));
ret.append(words[i].substring(1));
if(i < words.length - 1) {
ret.append(' ');
}
}
return ret.toString();
}