Does anyone know Java?

[earz]

I've got a Java assignment due on Sunday night, problem is, i'm going out of town Friday afternoon for the weekend and will not be around a PC.

I'm stumped and need some help. Let me know if you can help me out.

[FalxZZR]

my java is limited to rotating banners at the top of a forum~

[RebelKittyn]

i know bits and pieces, depends on what you're trying to do. did this little 'into to javascript' during my html classes junior and senior year and took C++ programming my freshman year of college, but those have been a couple years at least.

[earz]

I think javascript may be slightly different than java - but I'm new to it so I may be wrong. Anyway.

I'm trying to get it to capitalize the first word of a sentence. I can get it to capitalize every word (see code below), but I just want the FIRST word of a sentence. When the user enters:

hello, how are you today? i'm doing great!

I want it to display:

Hello, how are you today? I'm doing great!

Here's what I've got so far. I'll add the Scanner class later to accept a users input. Right now I just have a string initialized for testing purposes. I have been working on and thinking about this for two days. I've tried so many variations that I'm going cross eyed. At one point, I had it working except it didn't space between the ending punctuation mark and the next word, but couldn't figure out how to add the space in - but now I don't remember what all I changed.

public class CapitalizeFirst {

	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String test = "hello, how are you today? ";
		
		System.out.print("Original: " + test);
		System.out.print("\nNew: " + title(test));

	}
	
	public static String title(String string){
	
		for(int i = 0; i < string.length(); i++){
			
			if(i == 0){
				string = String.format("%s%s", Character.toUpperCase(string.charAt(0)), string.substring(1));}
			
			if(!Character.isLetterOrDigit(string.charAt(i))){
				if(i + 1 < string.length()){
					string = String.format("%s%s%s", string.subSequence(0, i + 1), 
							Character.toUpperCase(string.charAt(i + 1)), string.substring(i + 2));
					}
				}
		}
		return string;
	}

}

[RebelKittyn]

I'm guessing you're trying to code a program that checks/corrects spelling/grammer errors? Not sure if there's a specific code for it, but I would think you could use and if then function.

If First=lowercase
Then CapitalizeFirst


You would prolly have to enter a string somewhere that would cause it to recognize the first letter and I don't know if it would recognize lowercase or capitalize as objects/commands. if it didn't then it'd be a looong bit of typing...

if First=a
then substitute A

I still have my C++ programming book from College, I'll have to take a look at it sometime tomorrow. If anything useful does pop up, you're welcome to borrow it. Heck I've still got the program given to us to use for the class.

[earz]

Thanks, but I was up until 4am, but figured it out.