Java String Capitalize Word capitalizeWords(String str)

Description

Capitalizes the first letter of every "word" in a string.
(Based on ucwords() function of PHP)

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
str	a parameter

Return

String containing the modified string.

Declaration

public static String capitalizeWords(String str) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*w w  w  . j a v  a  2  s  . c  o m*/
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
 * Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program 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 General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If
 * not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * Capitalizes the first letter of every "word" in a string.<BR>
     * (Based on ucwords() function of PHP)
     * 
     * @param str
     * @return String containing the modified string.
     */
    public static String capitalizeWords(String str) {
        char[] charArray = str.toCharArray();
        String result = "";

        // Capitalize the first letter in the given string!
        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;
    }
}

Related

1. capitalizeWords(final String text)
2. capitalizeWords(String data)
3. capitalizeWords(String s)
4. capitalizeWords(String str)
5. capitalizeWords(String str)
6. capitalizeWords(String string)