Java Utililty Methods String Capitalize Word

List of utility methods to do String Capitalize Word

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StringcapitalizeWords(String data)
Capitalizes each word in the given text by converting the first letter to upper case. 
if (data == null)
    return null;
StringBuilder res = new StringBuilder();
char ch;
char prevCh = '.';
for (int i = 0; i < data.length(); i++) {
    ch = data.charAt(i);
    if (Character.isLetter(ch)) {
...
StringcapitalizeWords(String s)
capitalizeWords. 
if (s == null) {
    return null;
String[] tokens = s.split(" ");
StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
for (String x : tokens) {
    buf.append(capitalize(x) + " ");
return buf.substring(0, buf.length() - 1);
StringcapitalizeWords(String str)
Capitalizes the first letter of every "word" in a string.
(Based on ucwords() function of PHP) 
char[] charArray = str.toCharArray();
String result = "";
charArray[0] = Character.toUpperCase(charArray[0]);
for (int i = 0; i < charArray.length; i++) {
    if (Character.isWhitespace(charArray[i]))
        charArray[i + 1] = Character.toUpperCase(charArray[i + 1]);
    result += Character.toString(charArray[i]);
return result;
StringcapitalizeWords(String str)

Capitalizes all the whitespace separated words in a String. 

return capitalizeWords(str, null);
StringcapitalizeWords(String str)
(Based on ucwords() function of PHP)
DrHouse: still functional but must be rewritten to avoid += to concat strings 
if ((str == null) || str.isEmpty()) {
    return str;
final char[] charArray = str.toCharArray();
final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
charArray[0] = Character.toUpperCase(charArray[0]);
for (int i = 0; i < charArray.length; i++) {
    if (Character.isWhitespace(charArray[i])) {
...
StringcapitalizeWords(String string)
capitalize Words 
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(string.toLowerCase());
for (int i = 0; i < result.length(); i++) {
    if (i == 0 || !Character.isLetter(result.charAt(i - 1))) {
        result.setCharAt(i, Character.toUpperCase(result.charAt(i)));
return result.toString();