I need to capitalize first letter in every word in the string, BUT it's not so easy as it seems to be as the word is considered to be any sequence of letters, digits, "_" , "-", "`" while all other chars are considered to be separators, i.e. after them the next letter must be capitalized.
Example what program should do:
For input: "#he&llo wo!r^ld"
Output should be: "#He&Llo Wo!R^Ld"
There are questions that sound similar here, but there solutions really don't help.
This one for example:
String output = Arrays.stream(input.split("[\\s&]+"))
.map(t -> t.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + t.substring(1))
.collect(Collectors.joining(" "));
As in my task there can be various separators, this solution doesn't work.
解决方案
It is possible to split a string and keep the delimiters, so taking into account the requirement for delimiters:
word is considered to be any sequence of letters, digits, "_" , "-", "`" while all other chars are considered to be separators
the pattern which keeps the delimiters in the result array would be: "((?<=[^-`\\w])|(?=[^-`\\w]))":
[^-`\\w]: all characters except -, backtick and word characters \w: [A-Za-z0-9_]
Then, the "words" are capitalized, and delimiters are kept as is:
static String capitalize(String input) {
if (null == input || 0 == input.length()) {
return input;
}
return Arrays.stream(input.split("((?<=[^-`\\w])|(?=[^-`\\w]))"))
.map(s -> s.matches("[-`\\w]+") ? Character.toUpperCase(s.charAt(0)) + s.substring(1) : s)
.collect(Collectors.joining(""));
}
Tests:
System.out.println(capitalize("#he&l_lo-wo!r^ld"));
System.out.println(capitalize("#`he`&l+lo wo!r^ld"));
Output:
#He&l_lo-wo!R^Ld
#`he`&L+Lo Wo!R^Ld
Update
If it is needed to process not only ASCII set of characters but apply to other alphabets or character sets (e.g. Cyrillic, Greek, etc.), POSIX class \\p{IsWord} may be used and matching of Unicode characters needs to be enabled using pattern flag (?U):
static String capitalizeUnicode(String input) {
if (null == input || 0 == input.length()) {
return input;
}
return Arrays.stream(input.split("(?U)((?<=[^-`\\p{IsWord}])|(?=[^-`\\p{IsWord}]))")
.map(s -> s.matches("(?U)[-`\\p{IsWord}]+") ? Character.toUpperCase(s.charAt(0)) + s.substring(1) : s)
.collect(Collectors.joining(""));
}
Test:
System.out.println(capitalizeUnicode("#he&l_lo-wo!r^ld"));
System.out.println(capitalizeUnicode("#привет&`ёж`+дос^βιδ/ως"));
Output:
#He&L_lo-wo!R^Ld
#Привет&`ёж`+Дос^Βιδ/Ως