I have a collection of characters (',', '.', '/', '-', ' ') then I have a collection of strings (about 500).
What I want to do as fast as possible is: after each of the characters I want to make the next letter uppercase.
I want the first capitalized as well and many of the strings are all uppercase to begin with.
EDIT:
I modified tdragons answer to this final result:
public static String CapitalizeAndStuff(string startingString)
{
startingString = startingString.ToLower();
char[] chars = new[] { '-', ',', '/', ' ', '.'};
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(startingString.Length);
bool makeUpper = true;
foreach (var c in startingString)
{
if (makeUpper)
{
result.Append(Char.ToUpper(c));
makeUpper = false;
}
else
{
result.Append(c);
}
if (chars.Contains(c))
{
makeUpper = true;
}
}
return result.ToString();
}
Then I call this method for all my strings.
string a = "fef-aw-fase-fes-fes,fes-,fse--sgr";
char[] chars = new[] { '-', ',' };
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(a.Length);
bool makeUpper = true;
foreach (var c in a)
{
if (makeUpper)
{
result.Append(Char.ToUpper(c));
makeUpper = false;
}
else
{
result.Append(c);
}
if (chars.Contains(c))
{
makeUpper = true;
}
}
public static string Capitalise(string text, string targets, CultureInfo culture)
{
bool capitalise = true;
var result = new StringBuilder(text.Length);
foreach (char c in text)
{
if (capitalise)
{
result.Append(char.ToUpper(c, culture));
capitalise = false;
}
else
{
if (targets.Contains(c))
capitalise = true;
result.Append(c);
}
}
return result.ToString();
}
Use it like this:
string targets = ",./- ";
string text = "one,two.three/four-five six";
Console.WriteLine(Capitalise(text, targets, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
char[] chars = new char[] { ',', '.', '/', '-', ' ' };
string input = "Foo bar bar foo, foo, bar,foo-bar.bar_foo zz-";
string result = input[0] + new string(input.Skip(1).Select((c, i) =>
chars.Contains(input[i]) ? char.ToUpper(input[i + 1]) : input[i + 1]
).ToArray());
Console.WriteLine(result);
Or you can use a simply regex expression:
var result = Regex.Replace(str, @"([.,-][a-z]|\b[a-z])", m => m.Value.ToUpper());
You can stringSplit your whole string multiple times, once for each element, rinse and repeate, and then uppcase each block.
char[] tempChar = {',','-'};
List<string> tempList = new List();
tempList.Add(yourstring);
foreach(var currentChar in tempChar)
{
List<string> tempSecondList = new List();
foreach(var tempString in tempList)
{
foreach(var tempSecondString in tempString.split(currentchar))
{
tempSecondList.Add(tempSecondString);
}
}
tempList = tempSecondList;
}
I hope i did count correct, anyway, afterwards make every entry in tempList Upper