Capitalize first and last name Tag(s): String
Capitalization of a name is hard to do because they are many rules, see this Wikipedia article. Maybe that's one reason of why names are often printed with all uppercase letters!
However, we can cover many cases by using a simple rule like uppercase the first letter of each word separated by a space or a hyphen.
Using Java code
public class StringUtils {
private StringUtils() {}
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(StringUtils.capitalize("john smith")); // John Smith
System.out.println(StringUtils.capitalize("john s. doe")); // John S. Doe
System.out.println(StringUtils.capitalize("john smith-doe")); // John Smith-Doe
}
public static String capitalize(String s) {
if ((s == null) || (s.trim().length() == 0)) {
return s;
}
s = s.toLowerCase();
char[] cArr = s.trim().toCharArray();
cArr[0] = Character.toUpperCase(cArr[0]);
for (int i = 0; i < cArr.length; i++) {
if (cArr[i] == ' ' && (i + 1) < cArr.length) {
cArr[i + 1] = Character.toUpperCase(cArr[i + 1]);
}
if (cArr[i] == '-' && (i + 1) < cArr.length) {
cArr[i + 1] = Character.toUpperCase(cArr[i + 1]);
}
if (cArr[i] == '\'' && (i + 1) < cArr.length) {
cArr[i + 1] = Character.toUpperCase(cArr[i + 1]);
}
}
return new String(cArr);
}
}Using Apache Commons
Apache Commons Lang provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods.
The WordUtils
class is used to capitalize a serie of words.
import org.apache.commons.lang.WordUtils;
public class Test3 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(WordUtils.capitalize("john smith")); // John Smith
System.out.println(WordUtils.capitalize("john smith-doe")); // John Smith-doe
System.out.println(WordUtils.capitalizeFully("john smith-doe", new char[] { ' ', '-' })); // John Smith-Doe
}
}
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>3.5</version>
</dependency>
Using Oracle
If a database connection is available then a quick Oracle request with the INITCAP function will return a capitalized string.
SELECT initcap('john smith-doe') FROM dual