Thread: Convert to title case

I'd build a list of prepositions and articles just to make sure that you don't capitalize those unless it's the first word (as long as we're striving for correctness). You can then compare parts of the title, and if they don't match one of the normally lowercase words you can capitalize the first initial.

Well, i dint wanted to give you the whole code. You will have to sit down and go through the problem again and again. You have already got lots of suggestion from many other members. Although just to give you a brief idea, i mean an alternative idea on how to approach this problem. Look at the following code

Code:

    ptr = strtok( str, " " );
    
    while( ptr != NULL )
    {
           strcat( result, toTitleCase( ptr ) );
           strcat( result, " ");
           ptr = strtok( NULL, " " );
    }

Well, the main objective of the problem is to capitalize the char in a given word. Lets keep things simple here. An alternative way to approach is to token the string you get each word. You know that in each word the first char should be capital. Sent that word to some user defined function which changes the first char in that word to capital and the lower cases the rest of the chars in the word and return that string back to the calling function. And returned string will .be concatenated to a resultant string. May be i can provided that user defined function. But you should work with the rest.

Code:

const char *toTitleCase( char *token )
{
     int i;
     token[0] = toupper( token [0] );
     
     for( i = 1; token[i] != '\0'; i++ )
          token[i] = tolower( token[i] );
     
     return token;
}

If this donst help, then you should really look back and go through some basics again!!

ssharish

Originally Posted by Elysia

It's best you do when showing code
No bad practices!

I assume these are his homework so I haven't published the entire code.
My code works excellent, just give me the permission and I'll put it here.