How to convert string to sentence case in C#?

Question

How can I convert a string to a sentence case?

I don't want to convert to title case. My requirement is to convert the string to sentence case.

With regard to using jQuery: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1504638/how-to-give-sentence-case-to-sentences-through-css-or-javascript — Marcus Whybrow, Jan 13 '11 at 10:18
possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3141426/net-method-to-convert-a-string-to-sentence-case — Pauli Østerø, Jan 13 '11 at 10:23
@Pauli:Sentence case in a general sense describes the way that capitalization is used within a sentence. Sentence case is also the capitalization of an English sentence, i.e. the first letter of the sentence is capitalized, with the rest being lower case (unless requiring capitalization for a specific reason, e.g. proper nouns, acronyms, etc.). — nimi, Jan 13 '11 at 10:28
@Nimesh so it the requirement with or without proper capitalization for specific reasons? — Pauli Østerø, Jan 13 '11 at 10:30
@pauli: it would be great if it's with proper capitalization. — nimi, Jan 13 '11 at 10:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 12:15

In C# you do this:

static string UppercaseFirst(string s)
{
    // Check for empty string.
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
    {
        return string.Empty;
    }
    // Return char and concat substring.
    return char.ToUpper(s[0]) + s.Substring(1);
}

In CSS you could do the following (if your browser supports it)

#mytitle:first-letter 
{
text-transform:capitalize;
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 13 '11 at 10:18

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I would vonvert the whole string to smallcase and then convert the first letter to upper.Heres an example in C#

string s = "SOME STRING";
System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder(s);
s.ToLower();
s.ToUpper(s.Substring(0, 1));

answered Jan 13 '11 at 10:18

fARcRY

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technically sentence case also takes special words nouns into account and capitalize them as well. – Pauli Østerø Jan 13 '11 at 10:22
Then you would have to have a list of 'special' words and then they can be capitalized as well, it depends how much time you want to spend on the problem. – fARcRY Jan 13 '11 at 10:24

How to convert string to sentence case in C#?

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