How to capitalize the first letter of word in a string using Java?

Question

Example strings

one thousand only
two hundred
twenty
seven

How do I change the first character of a string in capital letter and not change

Answer 1

Adding everything together, it is a good idea to trim for extra white space at beginning of string. Otherwise, .substring(0,1).toUpperCase will try to capitalize a white space.

    public String capitalizeFirstLetter(String original) {
        if (original == null || original.length() == 0) {
            return original;
        }
        return original.trim().substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + original.substring(1);
    }