capitalizes the first letter of the word and turns the rest of it into lower case. It also replaces underscores (_) with spaces. - Java java.lang

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Description

capitalizes the first letter of the word and turns the rest of it into lower case. It also replaces underscores (_) with spaces.

Demo Code


//package com.java2s;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] argv) {
        String word = "ASDF";
        System.out.println(asName(word));
    }//from w ww . j ava  2  s.co  m

    /**
     * This method capitalizes the first letter of the word and turns the rest
     * of it into lower case.<br />
     * It also replaces underscores (_) with spaces. E.g.: fOo becomes Foo, foo
     * becomes Foo, Foo stays Foo, F_oo becomes F oo.<br />
     * For example, this can be used to present values of an enumeration to the
     * user.
     * @param word Word to transform
     * @return Word in name form
     */
    public static String asName(final String word) {

        final StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();

        if (null != word) {

            final char first = Character.toUpperCase(word.charAt(0));

            // Make sure first is not a symbol
            if (Character.isUpperCase(first)) {

                final String withSpaces = word.substring(1).toLowerCase()
                        .replace("_", " ");

                result.append(first).append(withSpaces);

            }

        }

        return result.toString();

    }
}

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