Format a String literal

Question

I want to format a string value by a certain format that the first letter of it be in Uppercase.
e.g:

string.Format("{0}", "myName"); //Output must be : "MyName"

How can I do it?

And if `myname` is `"fred jones"`, is that `"Fred jones"`, or `"Fred Jones"` ? — Marc Gravell, Nov 06 '12 at 07:28
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4135317/make-first-letter-of-each-word-upper-case — Karthik, Nov 06 '12 at 07:29

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 06 '12 at 08:33

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Please check MSDN for your case, see TextInfo.ToTitleCase Method .

string myString = "wAr aNd pEaCe";        
TextInfo myTI = new CultureInfo("en-US", false).TextInfo;
Console.WriteLine("\"{0}\" to titlecase: {1}", myString, myTI.ToTitleCase(myString));

edited Nov 06 '12 at 08:33

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answered Nov 06 '12 at 07:31

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 06 '12 at 07:30

If you only want to capitalise the first letter, maybe:

string s = string.Format("{0}", char.ToUpper(myname[0]) + myname.Substring(1));

Otherwise, to capitalise each word maybe use TextInfo.ToTitleCase ?

string s = string.Format("{0}",
    CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(myname));

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 06 '12 at 07:36

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try

string test = "myname";
string formatted = System.Globalization.CultureInfo
                         .CurrentUICulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(test);

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cuongle

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answered Nov 06 '12 at 07:28

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 06 '12 at 07:36

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CultureInfo cultureInfo   = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
TextInfo textInfo = cultureInfo.TextInfo;

Console.WriteLine("{0}", textInfo.ToTitleCase(myname));

answered Nov 06 '12 at 07:36

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 06 '12 at 07:34

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string input = "myname";
var charArray = input.ToArray();
charArray[0] = char.ToUpper(charArray[0]);

string result = new string(charArray);

answered Nov 06 '12 at 07:34

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Format a String literal

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