Grails converts a string to a letter case

Question

Do I need to convert a string to letter case (correct case or title), is there any default function to support Groovy for this, or do I need to manually substitute the first character?

Answer 1

assert org.apache.commons.lang.WordUtils.capitalizeFully('man OF stEEL') == 'Man Of Steel'

The class is WordUtilsprovided by Apache Commons Lang, which is available on the way to Grails application classes using defatult

Answer 2

yes you can use the capitalize () method

http://groovy.codehaus.org/groovy-jdk/java/lang/String.html#capitalize%28%29

Answer 3

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assert "John Doe" == "john dOE".tokenize(" ")*.toLowerCase()*.capitalize().join(" ")

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Answer 4

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def capitalize(s) { s[0].toUpperCase() + s[1..-1].toLowerCase() }
caps = "man OF stEEL".replaceAll(/\w+/) { w -> capitalize(w) }