Java tutorial
import java.util.Map; /* * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source * Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a * full listing of individual contributors. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ public class Main { /** * Capitalize the first character of the given string. * * @param string String to capitalize. * @return Capitalized string. * * @throws IllegalArgumentException String is <kk>null</kk> or empty. */ public static String capitalize(final String string) { if (string == null) throw new NullPointerException("string"); if (string.equals("")) throw new NullPointerException("string"); return Character.toUpperCase(string.charAt(0)) + string.substring(1); } }