VB.NET Uppercase First Letter

Implement a Function to uppercase the first letter in Strings.

Uppercase first. This Function uppercases the first letter. It acts upon a VB.NET String. The value "test" becomes "Test". None of the other characters should be modified. And if the first character is whitespace or a digit, it should not be affected.Strings Function

Here: We introduce a custom method that uppercases the first letter. A built-in method, ToTitleCase, is also available in the Framework.

Example. First, this program introduces the UppercaseFirstLetter function, which receives a String and returns a String. In this function, we first test for null or empty parameters, and exit early in this case.

Next: We call ToCharArray to convert the String into a mutable array of characters.

Then: We use the Char.ToUpper method to uppercase the first letter, and we finally return a new String instance built from the character array.

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VB.NET program that uppercases first letter Module Module1 Sub Main() Console.WriteLine(UppercaseFirstLetter("sam")) Console.WriteLine(UppercaseFirstLetter("Codex")) Console.WriteLine(UppercaseFirstLetter(Nothing)) Console.WriteLine(UppercaseFirstLetter("VB.NET")) End Sub Function UppercaseFirstLetter(ByVal val As String) As String ' Test for nothing or empty. If String.IsNullOrEmpty(val) Then Return val End If ' Convert to character array. Dim array() As Char = val.ToCharArray ' Uppercase first character. array(0) = Char.ToUpper(array(0)) ' Return new string. Return New String(array) End Function End Module Output Sam Perls VB.NET

This function, which uses the ToCharArray constructor, is somewhat faster and less memory-intensive than a version that uses the Substring method multiple times. It cuts down on the number of new string instances allocated.

Tip: In performance analysis, eliminating string allocations is often a clear win. Using ToCharArray here helps.

Warning: This function has a limitation. It won't correctly process names that have multiple uppercase letters in them.

So: The name "McChrystal" would be changed to "Mcchrystal" if the input string was "mcchrystal". This could be corrected with a Dictionary.

Dictionary

ToTitleCase. Instead of this custom implementation, you could use the ToTitleCase function from the .NET Framework. With ToTitleCase, every word is capitalized, which is a slightly different behavior from the implementation above.ToTitleCase

Summary. We learned one way you can uppercase only part of a string, such as the first letter. You could develop more sophisticated logic to uppercase or change other parts of the character array. The approach would be equally effective.

Note: This method could be used to clean up poorly formatted character data, as from a text file or database.

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