How to capitalize the first character of each word, or the first character of a whole string, with C#?

Question

I could write my own algorithm to do it, but I feel there should be the equivalent to ruby\'s humanize in C#.

I googled it but only found ways to humanize dates.

Answer 1

If you just want to capitalize the first character, just stick this in a utility method of your own:

return string.IsNullOrEmpty(str) 
    ? str
    : str[0].ToUpperInvariant() + str.Substring(1).ToLowerInvariant();

There's also a library method to capitalize the first character of every word:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.textinfo.totitlecase.aspx