Capitalizes the first character of the given string

      
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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

/**
 * <p>Utilities for strings.</p>
 *
 *
 * Copyright 2002 Sapient
 * @since carbon 1.0
 * @author Greg Hinkle, May 2002
 * @version $Revision: 1.5 $($Author: dvoet $ / $Date: 2003/05/05 21:21:24 $)
 */
public class StringUtil {

    /**
     * Capitalizes the first character of the given string.
     * @param s the String to capitalize
     * @return the capitalized result
     */
    public static String capitalize(String s) {
        if (s.length() == 0) return s;
        char c = Character.toUpperCase(s.charAt(0));
        return c + s.substring(1, s.length());
    }


}

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