Extracting capital letters ( English ) | Preferred method

Question

Given a string of text

var string1 = 'IAmNotFoo';

How do you extract just the capital letters?

'IANF'

Here are some methods per links below:

function isUpperCase1(aCharacter) {    
    if ( ch == ch.toUpperCase() ) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

function isUpperCase2( aCharacter ) {    
    return ( aCharacter >= 'A' ) && ( aCharacter <= 'Z' );
}

var string1 = 'IAmNotFoo',
    string2 = '',
    i = 0,
    ch = '';

while ( i <= string1.length ) {
    ch = string1.charAt( i );
    if (!isNaN( ch * 1 ) ) {
        alert('character is numeric'); 
    }
    else if ( isUpperCase2() ) { // or isUpperCase1
        string2 += ch;
    }
    i++;
}

or simply ( per comment below ):

var upper = str.replace(/[^A-Z]/g, '');

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Answer 1

I like working with numbers so I would prefer converting to integers and checking the ascii range. You can see this chart here www.ascii-code.com.

All capital letters have a separate ascii code from their lower case counterparts.

do something like this

String str = "IAmNoFoo";
returnCaps(str);

Public static String returnCaps(String, str)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < str.length; i++)
        {
            int letter = str.convertToInt(charAt(i));
            if (letter >= 65 || letter <= 90)
              return str.substring.charAt(i);
            else
               return "No Capital Letters Found"
        }
    }

You might need to set the loop check to i <= str.length

This will check to see if the character at each index of the string is a captial or not. I think it is easiest to think mathematically.

With a little tweaking you could very easily make this into a recursive method.

Answer 2

The regex method is by far the simplest and most efficient, since it is just a single step as opposed to a big loop.