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 need to make a program that takes a user entered sentence and reverses it with proper formatting and punctuation.
Ex:The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
RESULT: "Dog lazy the over jumps fox brown quick the."
I have seen solutions to this and I can get a correct answer by asking the user for 1 word at a time. However we are specifically asked to ONLY ask the user for the sentence, and then the program does the rest. So the program has to determine how large the array is, and assign each word in the string to a value in the array (i guess?).
So far this is what I have, however I think that I need to use a stringBuffer but I don't know how to implement this.
public class ReverseSentence {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String[] sentence = new String[]{IO.readString()};
for(int counter = 0; counter < sentence.length; counter++){
System.out.println("Enter Sentence"+(counter+1));
sentence[counter] = IO.readString();
}
System.out.println("The Reversed Sentence is:");
for(int counter = sentence.length - 1; counter >= 0; counter--){
System.out.print(sentence[counter]);
}
}
}
This is not for a homework assignment, just some practice problems for an upcoming exam, so a full solution would be fine, but if possible, with comment lines so I can see how you did it.
You have two distinct problems:
reversing the sentence
capitalising the sentence
Lets do the first part fist:
public static String reverseSentence(final String sentence) {
final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("[^A-Za-z']+");
final List<String> words = pattern.splitAsStream(sentence)
.map(String::toLowerCase)
.collect(toList());
final StringBuilder reversed = new StringBuilder();
final ListIterator<String> i = words.listIterator(words.size());
reversed.append(i.previous());
while (i.hasPrevious()) {
reversed
.append(" ")
.append(i.previous());
}
reversed.append(".");
return reversed.toString();
}
Double-check the code:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
System.out.println(reverseSentence("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"));
}
dog lazy the over jumps fox brown quick the.
Okay, now we need to capitalise the first word:
public static String capitalise(final String name) {
return name.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + name.substring(1).toLowerCase();
}
We just need to use this method on the first word:
public static String reverseSentence(final String sentence) {
final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("[^A-Za-z']+");
final List<String> words = pattern.splitAsStream(sentence)
.map(String::toLowerCase)
.collect(toList());
final StringBuilder reversed = new StringBuilder();
final ListIterator<String> i = words.listIterator(words.size());
reversed.append(capitalise(i.previous()));
while (i.hasPrevious()) {
reversed
.append(" ")
.append(i.previous());
}
reversed.append(".");
return reversed.toString();
}
Check it again:
Dog lazy the over jumps fox brown quick the.
You can try like this:
public static String reverseString(String input) {
//from input to this method
// split input with space and store words
// in a collection if input is not empty
Deque<String> words = new ArrayDeque<>();
for (String word: input.split(" ")) {
if (!word.isEmpty()) {
words.addFirst(word);
}
}
//now build output in reverse order of
// addition to collection if input is not empty
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
while (!words.isEmpty()) {
result.append(words.removeFirst());
if (!words.isEmpty()) {
result.append(" ");
}
}
return result.toString();
}
Use Apache Commons StringUtils.
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/
String result = StringUtils.capitalize(StringUtils.reverse(StringUtils.uncapitalize(basicString.substring(0,basicString.length()-1)))) + ".";
Try this. This code will give output of all case of format using full stop (.). And read the comment carefully.
Scanner inp = new Scanner(System.in);
String s1 = inp.nextLine();
String s2[] = s1.split(" ");
boolean full_stop = false;
// Printing first character of last string in upper case
System.out.print(Character.toUpperCase(s2[s2.length - 1].charAt(0)));
// Printing rest of the character of last string
if (s2[s2.length - 1].contains(".")) {// checking that (.) is exists then print without (.)
System.out.print(s2[s2.length - 1].substring(1,s2[s2.length - 1].length() - 1) + " ");
full_stop = true;
} else {
System.out.print(s2[s2.length - 1].substring(1, s2[s2.length - 1].length()) + " ");
}
for (int i = s2.length - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
if (i > 0) {
System.out.print(s2[i] + " ");
} else {
System.out.print(Character.toLowerCase(s2[i].charAt(0)));//converting first string character to lower case
System.out.print(s2[i].substring(1,s2[i].length()));// last string must not have space after that
}
}
if (full_stop) {// printing (.) if exists
System.out.println(".");
}
This code is inside the main function:
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Type a sentence");
String sentence = input.next();
Stack<Character> stk = new Stack<Character>();
int i = 0;
while (i < sentence.length())
{
while (sentence.charAt(i) != ' ' && i < sentence.length() - 1)
{
stk.push(sentence.charAt(i));
i++;
}
stk.empty();
i++;
}
And this is the empty() function:
public void empty()
{
while (this.first != null)
System.out.print(this.pop());
}
It doesn't work properly, as by typing example sentence I am getting this output: lpmaxe. The first letter is missing and the loop stops instead of counting past the space to the next part of the sentence.
I am trying to achieve this:
This is a sentence ---> sihT si a ecnetnes
Per modifications to the original post, where the OP is now indicating that his goal is to reverse the letter order of the words within a sentence, but to leave the words in their initial positions.
The simplest way to do this, I think, is to make use of the String split function, iterate through the words, and reverse their orders.
String[] words = sentence.split(" "); // splits on the space between words
for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
String word = words[i];
System.out.print(reverseWord(word));
if (i < words.length-1) {
System.out.print(" "); // space after all words but the last
}
}
Where the method reverseWord is defined as:
public String reverseWord(String word) {
for( int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {
stk.push(word.charAt(i));
}
return stk.empty();
}
And where the empty method has been changed to:
public String empty() {
String stackWord = "";
while (this.first != null)
stackWord += this.pop();
return stackWord;
}
Original response
The original question indicated that the OP wanted to completely reverse the sentence.
You've got a double-looping construct where you don't really need it.
Consider this logic:
Read each character from the input string and push that character to the stack
When the input string is empty, pop each character from the stack and print it to screen.
So:
for( int i = 0; i < sentence.length(); i++) {
stk.push(sentence.charAt(i));
}
stk.empty();
I assume that what you want your code to do is to reverse each word in turn, not the entire string. So, given the input example sentence you want it to output elpmaxe ecnetnes not ecnetnes elpmaxe.
The reason that you see lpmaxe instead of elpmaxe is because your inner while-loop doesn't process the last character of the string since you have i < sentence.length() - 1 instead of i < sentence.length(). The reason that you only see a single word is because your sentence variable consists only of the first token of the input. This is what the method Scanner.next() does; it reads the next (by default) space-delimited token.
If you want to input a whole sentence, wrap up System.in as follows:
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
and call reader.readLine().
Hope this helps.
Assuming you've already got your input in sentence and the Stack object is called stk, here's an idea:
char[] tokens = sentence.toCharArray();
for (char c : tokens) {
if (c == ' ') {
stk.empty();
System.out.print(c);
} else {
stk.add(c);
}
}
Thus, it will scan through one character at a time. If we hit a space character, we'll assume we've hit the end of a word, spit out that word in reverse, print that space character, then continue. Otherwise, we'll add the character to the stack and continue building the current word. (If you want to also allow punctuation like periods, commas, and the like, change if (c == ' ') { to something like if (c == ' ' || c == '.' || c == ',') { and so on.)
As for why you're only getting one word, darrenp already pointed it out. (Personally, I'd use a Scanner instead of a BufferedReader unless speed is an issue, but that's just my opinion.)
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
public class stringWork {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String s1 = "Hello World";
s1 = reverseSentence(s1);
System.out.println(s1);
s1 = reverseWord(s1);
System.out.println(s1);
}
private static String reverseSentence(String s1){
String s2 = "";
for(int i=s1.length()-1;i>=0;i--){
s2 += s1.charAt(i);
}
return s2;
}
private static String reverseWord(String s1){
String s2 = "";
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s1);
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
s2 += reverseSentence(st.nextToken());
s2 += " ";
}
return s2;
}
}
public class ReverseofeachWordinaSentance {
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
String source = "Welcome to the word reversing program";
for (String str : source.split(" ")) {
System.out.print(new StringBuilder(str).reverse().toString());
System.out.print(" ");
}
System.out.println("");
System.out.println("------------------------------------ ");
String original = "Welcome to the word reversing program";
wordReverse(original);
System.out.println("Orginal Sentence :::: "+original);
System.out.println("Reverse Sentence :::: "+wordReverse(original));
}
public static String wordReverse(String original){
StringTokenizer string = new StringTokenizer(original);
Stack<Character> charStack = new Stack<Character>();
while (string.hasMoreTokens()){
String temp = string.nextToken();
for (int i = 0; i < temp.length(); i ++){
charStack.push(temp.charAt(i));
}
charStack.push(' ');
}
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
while(!charStack.empty()){
result.append(charStack.pop());
}
return result.toString();
}
}
public class reverseStr {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String testsa[] = { "", " ", " ", "a ", " a", " aa bd cs " };
for (String tests : testsa) {
System.out.println(tests + "|" + reverseWords2(tests) + "|");
}
}
public static String reverseWords2(String s) {
String[] sa;
String out = "";
sa = s.split(" ");
for (int i = 0; i < sa.length; i++) {
String word = sa[sa.length - 1 - i];
// exclude "" in splited array
if (!word.equals("")) {
//add space between two words
out += word + " ";
}
}
//exclude the last space and return when string is void
int n = out.length();
if (n > 0) {
return out.substring(0, out.length() - 1);
} else {
return "";
}
}
}
This can pass in leetcode
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();
}
This question already has answers here:
How to capitalize the first character of each word in a string
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Closed 3 years ago.
I have a string: "hello good old world" and i want to upper case every first letter of every word, not the whole string with .toUpperCase(). Is there an existing java helper which does the job?
Have a look at ACL WordUtils.
WordUtils.capitalize("your string") == "Your String"
Here is the code
String source = "hello good old world";
StringBuffer res = new StringBuffer();
String[] strArr = source.split(" ");
for (String str : strArr) {
char[] stringArray = str.trim().toCharArray();
stringArray[0] = Character.toUpperCase(stringArray[0]);
str = new String(stringArray);
res.append(str).append(" ");
}
System.out.print("Result: " + res.toString().trim());
sString = sString.toLowerCase();
sString = Character.toString(sString.charAt(0)).toUpperCase()+sString.substring(1);
i dont know if there is a function but this would do the job in case there is no exsiting one:
String s = "here are a bunch of words";
final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(s.length());
String[] words = s.split("\\s");
for(int i=0,l=words.length;i<l;++i) {
if(i>0) result.append(" ");
result.append(Character.toUpperCase(words[i].charAt(0)))
.append(words[i].substring(1));
}
import org.apache.commons.lang.WordUtils;
public class CapitalizeFirstLetterInString {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// only the first letter of each word is capitalized.
String wordStr = WordUtils.capitalize("this is first WORD capital test.");
//Capitalize method capitalizes only first character of a String
System.out.println("wordStr= " + wordStr);
wordStr = WordUtils.capitalizeFully("this is first WORD capital test.");
// This method capitalizes first character of a String and make rest of the characters lowercase
System.out.println("wordStr = " + wordStr );
}
}
Output :
This Is First WORD Capital Test.
This Is First Word Capital Test.
Here's a very simple, compact solution. str contains the variable of whatever you want to do the upper case on.
StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder(str);
int i = 0;
do {
b.replace(i, i + 1, b.substring(i,i + 1).toUpperCase());
i = b.indexOf(" ", i) + 1;
} while (i > 0 && i < b.length());
System.out.println(b.toString());
It's best to work with StringBuilder because String is immutable and it's inefficient to generate new strings for each word.
Trying to be more memory efficient than splitting the string into multiple strings, and using the strategy shown by Darshana Sri Lanka. Also, handles all white space between words, not just the " " character.
public static String UppercaseFirstLetters(String str)
{
boolean prevWasWhiteSp = true;
char[] chars = str.toCharArray();
for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
if (Character.isLetter(chars[i])) {
if (prevWasWhiteSp) {
chars[i] = Character.toUpperCase(chars[i]);
}
prevWasWhiteSp = false;
} else {
prevWasWhiteSp = Character.isWhitespace(chars[i]);
}
}
return new String(chars);
}
String s = "java is an object oriented programming language.";
final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(s.length());
String words[] = s.split("\\ "); // space found then split it
for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++)
{
if (i > 0){
result.append(" ");
}
result.append(Character.toUpperCase(words[i].charAt(0))).append(
words[i].substring(1));
}
System.out.println(result);
Output: Java Is An Object Oriented Programming Language.
Also you can take a look into StringUtils library. It has a bunch of cool stuff.
My code after reading a few above answers.
/**
* Returns the given underscored_word_group as a Human Readable Word Group.
* (Underscores are replaced by spaces and capitalized following words.)
*
* #param pWord
* String to be made more readable
* #return Human-readable string
*/
public static String humanize2(String pWord)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String[] words = pWord.replaceAll("_", " ").split("\\s");
for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++)
{
if (i > 0)
sb.append(" ");
if (words[i].length() > 0)
{
sb.append(Character.toUpperCase(words[i].charAt(0)));
if (words[i].length() > 1)
{
sb.append(words[i].substring(1));
}
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
import java.util.Scanner;
public class CapitolizeOneString {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print(" Please enter Your word = ");
String str=scan.nextLine();
printCapitalized( str );
} // end main()
static void printCapitalized( String str ) {
// Print a copy of str to standard output, with the
// first letter of each word in upper case.
char ch; // One of the characters in str.
char prevCh; // The character that comes before ch in the string.
int i; // A position in str, from 0 to str.length()-1.
prevCh = '.'; // Prime the loop with any non-letter character.
for ( i = 0; i < str.length(); i++ ) {
ch = str.charAt(i);
if ( Character.isLetter(ch) && ! Character.isLetter(prevCh) )
System.out.print( Character.toUpperCase(ch) );
else
System.out.print( ch );
prevCh = ch; // prevCh for next iteration is ch.
}
System.out.println();
}
} // end class
public class WordChangeInCapital{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String s="this is string example";
System.out.println(s);
//this is input data.
//this example for a string where each word must be started in capital letter
StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer(s);
int i=0;
do{
b.replace(i,i+1,sb.substring(i,i+1).toUpperCase());
i=b.indexOf(" ",i)+1;
} while(i>0 && i<sb.length());
System.out.println(sb.length());
}
}
package com.raj.samplestring;
/**
* #author gnagara
*/
public class SampleString {
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
String[] stringArray;
String givenString = "ramu is Arr Good boy";
stringArray = givenString.split(" ");
for(int i=0; i<stringArray.length;i++){
if(!Character.isUpperCase(stringArray[i].charAt(0))){
Character c = stringArray[i].charAt(0);
Character change = Character.toUpperCase(c);
StringBuffer ss = new StringBuffer(stringArray[i]);
ss.insert(0, change);
ss.deleteCharAt(1);
stringArray[i]= ss.toString();
}
}
for(String e:stringArray){
System.out.println(e);
}
}
}
Here is an easy solution:
public class CapitalFirstLetters {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String word = "it's java, baby!";
String[] wordSplit;
String wordCapital = "";
wordSplit = word.split(" ");
for (int i = 0; i < wordSplit.length; i++) {
wordCapital = wordSplit[i].substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + wordSplit[i].substring(1) + " ";
}
System.out.println(wordCapital);
}}
public String UpperCaseWords(String line)
{
line = line.trim().toLowerCase();
String data[] = line.split("\\s");
line = "";
for(int i =0;i< data.length;i++)
{
if(data[i].length()>1)
line = line + data[i].substring(0,1).toUpperCase()+data[i].substring(1)+" ";
else
line = line + data[i].toUpperCase();
}
return line.trim();
}
So much simpler with regexes:
Pattern spaces=Pattern.compile("\\s+[a-z]");
Matcher m=spaces.matcher(word);
StringBuilder capitalWordBuilder=new StringBuilder(word.substring(0,1).toUpperCase());
int prevStart=1;
while(m.find()) {
capitalWordBuilder.append(word.substring(prevStart,m.end()-1));
capitalWordBuilder.append(word.substring(m.end()-1,m.end()).toUpperCase());
prevStart=m.end();
}
capitalWordBuilder.append(word.substring(prevStart,word.length()));
Output for input: "this sentence Has Weird caps"
This Sentence Has Weird Caps