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How to capitalize the first letter of a String in Java?

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I am using Java to get a String input from the user. I am trying to make the first letter of this input capitalized. I tried this: String name; BufferedReader br = new InputStreamReader(System.in); String s1 = name.charAt(0).toUppercase()); System.out.println(s1 + name.substring(1)); which led to these compiler errors: Type mismatch: cannot convert from InputStreamReader to BufferedReader … Read more

How can I capitalize the first letter of each word in a string?

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s=”the brown fox” …do something here… s should be: ‘The Brown Fox’ What’s the easiest way to do this? 22 s 22 The .title() method of a string (either ASCII or Unicode is fine) does this: >>> “hello world”.title() ‘Hello World’ >>> u”hello world”.title() u’Hello World’ However, look out for strings with embedded apostrophes, as … Read more

How to capitalize the first letter of a String in Java?

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String str = “java”; String cap = str.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + str.substring(1); // cap = “Java” With your example: public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); // Actually use the Reader String name = br.readLine(); // Don’t mistake String object with a Character object String s1 = name.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase(); … Read more