How do I capitalize first letter of all words in a string?

[dizzylizzyd514]

I need to make this:

introductoRy speEch ==> Introductory Speech
pRecalCulus 1 and 2 ==> Precalculus 1 And 2


I know how to capitalize the first letter of a word, but not multiple words in a string like the examples shown.

Any ideas????

[JosAH]

Capitalize the first character of the string as well as all non white space characters
that follow a white space character. Every other character should be changed to
its lowercase form whereever applicable,

kind regards,

Jos

[dizzylizzyd514]

void reformatcourse (string& course)
//Given the course name (string data type), reformatcourse will capitalize the
//first letter of the course name and make the remaining letters of the course
//name lowercase. The updated coursename is then passed back.
{
int length;
length = course.length();
course [0] = toupper(course [0]);
for (int i=1; i<length; i++)
{ if (course[i] != ' ')
{course[i] = tolower(course[i]);
}
if (course[i] = ' ')
{course[i+1] = toupper(course[i+1]);
i++;
}

}

}


This is what i have and it's not working. Do you notice any errors I could fix. I've been working on this since last night and I just can't figure it out.

[gpraghuram]

Hi,
The problem is in the line

//if (course[i] = ' ')
//You have used assignment operator instead of comparison operator.
//change that to
if (course[i] == ' ')
 

And everything is fine

Raghu

[whodgson]

.......something like this will do it to.

int l= s.length();
    s[0]=toupper(s[0]);              //capitalizes 
    cout<<s[0];                        //and prints first letter
               for(int i=1;i<l;i++)     //now starting with s[1]
               {
               if(s[i]!=' ')                  //prints next char providing not a space
               {cout<<s[i];
               continue;}                //repeat for all following lower case
                  if( s[i]=' ')              //if a space print it
                  {cout<<' ';
                  i++;                       //and increment
                  s[i]=toupper(s[i]);   //capitalize letter after space
                  }
                  cout<<s[i];           //and print it
 
              }

[Banfa]

.......something like this will do it to.

int l= s.length();
<snipped>                  cout<<s[i];           //and print it
 
              }

No it wont, it doesn't lower case letters that are upper case and in the middle of a word.

[whodgson]

Quite so Banfa, I wrongly assumed they were all in lower case to start with despite the example.
So add a for loop which does that first.
e.g.

for(int i=0;i<l;i++)
  s[i]=tolower(s[i]);

[hdanw]

Use the Shift Key.

;)