Thread: NEED HELP! make first letter of each word in user input text uppercase

Hello,
I am in need of some major help.
I need to write a program to make the user input some text,
and the first letter of each word has to be uppercase.
(have to use while loops)

So for example lets say the user inputs:
i lOvE pRoGrAmMiNg
The output needs to be:
I Love Programming

Code:

int main()
{
    char c, lower_c;

    printf("Enter Text\n");

    while (c != '\n' && c >= 0)
    {
        if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
            lower_c = c + 32;
        else
            lower_c = c;

        putchar(lower_c);

        c = getchar();
    }
    
    
    
    putchar('\n');
    return 0;
}

I have started this code by making the letters lowercase (I don't know if this was the right way to approach this, but I am hoping you can help me with that). I am not sure how proceed after this step, the step of making the first letter uppercase.
If anybody could help me out with this, it would be much appreciated.
Thank you for all your help in advance.
(PS for the program, loops should be while loops)

tolower - C++ Reference - to make all lower case

isspace - C++ Reference - to find space
isalpha - C++ Reference - to find where word begins after space
toupper - C++ Reference - to make first letter in the word uppercase

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

char *firstLetterToUpper(char *);
int strlen(char *);
void upper(char *);
void lower(char *);


int main(void)
{
    char data[64];


    printf("Enter some text:\n");


    if (fgets(data, sizeof data, stdin)) {
        firstLetterToUpper(data);
    } else {
        return 1;
    }


    printf("%s", data);
    
    return 0;
}


char *firstLetterToUpper(char *str)
{
    upper(str++);


    while (*str++ != '\0')
        if (*str == ' ') {
            upper(++str);
        } else {
            lower(str);
        }
}


void upper(char *c)
{
    if (*c >= 'a' && *c <= 'z')
        *c = *c + 'A' - 'a';
}


void lower(char *c)
{
    if (*c >= 'A' && *c <= 'Z')
        *c = *c + 'a' - 'A';
}


int strlen(char *s)
{
    char *p = s;


    while (*p++ != '\0')
        ;
    return p - s;
}

rieman, it is actually strongly discouraged here to simply give code asked for. People learn better if they work out something for themselves, rather than being spoon-fed.

And your code is not necessarily correct anyway - it doesn't work with all character sets.

You could have used standard library functions (linked to by vart) to simplify your code considerably - and have greater chance of it being correct. And strlen() is a standard function, so no need to roll your own.

The very first letter the user enters, must be uppercase. (You should #include <ctype.h>, as well as stdio.h)

Every first letter AFTER a space, must be uppercase. You can use isspace() or if(stringFromUser[i] == ' ') if you like. Same idea for a punctuation like comma, period, or newline: '\n'. At the end of a line, there will be no space, but the next line is likely to start with a new word, and require an uppercase letter.



Give that a try.

Originally Posted by Adak

At the end of a line, there will be no space, but the next line is likely to start with a new word, and require an uppercase letter.

The end of a line will typically be marked by a '\n'. isspace('\n') is non-zero (i.e. true).

There is nothing preventing a user from entering multiple spaces (or other whitespace characters) and/or punctuation characters between words. ispunct(), another function declared in <ctype.h>, can help detect punctuation characters.