First letter of Words to UpperCase

Question

I am making my debut with coding and i got stuck with a problem. I have to turn the First letter of a string toUpperCase. Can someone please guide me ? e.g : the quick fox ---> The Quick Fox.

here is my code :

function convertFirstLetterOfWordsToUpperCase(phrase){
    phrase = phrase.split("");
    console.log(mot);
    phrase[0] = phrase[0].toUpperCase();
    for(var i = 1; i <= phrase.length; i++){
     if(phrase[i] == ""){
      i++;
      phrase[i] = phrase[i].toUpperCase();
     }
    }
    phrase = phrase.join("");
    console.log(mot);
}
convertFirstLetterOfWordsToUpperCase("the quick fox");

here is the display : The quick fox.
Thanks for the help.

Well, if you want to show it in UI then would be better to use css `text-transform`, if it's needed in code for some reason, then use `slice` to split the string on 2 parts and then concatenate it back using `toUpperCase` on the first part. You can't change strings in JavaScript, they are immutable, you have to create a new string each time. — Dmitriy, Jul 06 '19 at 13:47
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the main problem is that you aren't `return`ing anything form the function. Try `return phrase` at the bottom of it — Robin Zigmond, Jul 06 '19 at 13:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 06 '19 at 13:51

Your issue is that you're trying to detect spaces in between your words using:

if (phrase[i] == "") {

But instead, when you split based on "", your spaces are not empty strings, they are strings with spaces (" "), and so you should check against that instead:

if (phrase[i] === " ") {

See example below:

function convertFirstLetterOfWordsToUpperCase(phrase) {
  phrase = phrase.split("");
  phrase[0] = phrase[0].toUpperCase();
  for (var i = 1; i <= phrase.length; i++) {
    if (phrase[i] === " ") {
      i++;
      phrase[i] = phrase[i].toUpperCase();
    }
  }
  return phrase.join("");
}
console.log(convertFirstLetterOfWordsToUpperCase("the quick fox"));

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 06 '19 at 14:42

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You can try with css or javascript as follows :

function capitalize(string) {
    return string.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(text){
        return text.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + text.substr(1).toLowerCase();
    });
}

edited Jul 06 '19 at 14:42

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answered Jul 06 '19 at 13:52

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First letter of Words to UpperCase

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