How to uppercase the first character of each word using a regex in VB.NET?

Question

Is it possible to uppercase the first character of each word using regex?

I\'m going to be using this in VB.net (SSIS)

Answer 1

Why not just use the inbuilt TextInfo.ToTitleCase() method already in the .NET Framework?

string capitalized = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase("this string should be capitalized!");

Answer 2

 s/\b(\w+)\b/ucfirst($1)/ge

Answer 3

.NET has builtin support for this. See TextInfo.ToTitleCase for documentation.

My code contains some extension methods for C#. I assume VB.NET has those too, but I do not know VB.NET well enough to convert them myself.

public static class StringExtensions {
    public static string ToTitleCase(this string value) {
        return value.ToTitleCase(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
    }

    public static string ToTitleCase(this string value, CultureInfo culture) {
        return value.ToTitleCase(culture.TextInfo);
    }

    public static string ToTitleCase(this string value, TextInfo textInfo) {
        return textInfo.ToTitleCase(value);
    }
}