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Capitalize is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (upper-case letter) and the remaining letters in lower case.

Capitalize is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (upper-case letter) and the remaining letters in lower case.

Mark the questions with this tag if it concerns automatic capitalization of strings.

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if/else statements accepting strings in both capital and lower-case letters in python

Is there a quick way for an "if" statement to accept a string regardless of whether it's lower-case, upper-case or both in python? I'm attempting to write a piece of code where the number "3" can be entered as well as the word "three"or "Three" or…
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How can I capitalize all the strings inside an array directly?

I'm learning swift. I've been trying this in Playground. I have no idea why the string is not being capitalized here. Or is there any other way to capitalize the string inside the array directly? Here's my code. var dogNames = ["Sean", "fido",…
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Capitalize / Capitalise first letter of every word in a string in Matlab?

What's the best way to capitalize / capitalise the first letter of every word in a string in Matlab? i.e. the rain in spain falls mainly on the plane to The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On The Plane
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How to capitalize each word even after hyphens with Jquery?

I want to capitalize all words in an input (using keyup function) to format names entered. examples : john doe => John Doe JOHN DOE => John Doe tommy-lee => Tommy-Lee Currently, I use this code : $("input").keyup(function() { var cp_value=…
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Smarty "capitalize" modifier... always capitalizes "L"? ... and "P"?

Quite simply: I'm using Smarty and the |capitalize modifier. It works fine, but when I pass any word with l in it, it capitalizes it, even if it's not at the beginning of the word. What why? EDIT: Same happens with…
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How to capitalize string in fish shell?

I got the following text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. That I want to capitalize, i.e. uppercase first letter of every word. Expected result Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet, Consectetur Adipisicing Elit. Bash…
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QML TextField how to capitalize the text

In QML how can I have a text input box that automatically converts the inputted text to all capitals? The following doesn't work: TextField { id: myfield objectName: "myfield" ... font.pixelSize: 20 …
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JavaScript Code to Capitalize Text Inputs

I'm using the popular Firefox extension Greasemonkey. I'd like to know if there was a way to capitalize all text inputs in a certain form, so if I would use jQuery the code would look something like: $('form#formid…
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Capitalizing hyphenated name

I have a script looking like this: firstn = input('Please enter your first name: ') lastn = input('Please enter Your last name: ') print('Good day, ' + str.capitalize(firstn) + ' ' + str.capitalize(lastn)+ '!') It will work nicely with simple…
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How to capitalize letter only in beginning of sentences, and the next word is normal

I use this: Static PreviousLetter As Char If PreviousLetter = " "c Or TextBox1.Text.Length = 0 Then e.KeyChar = Char.ToUpper(e.KeyChar) End If PreviousLetter = e.KeyChar But the result is always: Good Night Every Body How can I…
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Function that takes a nested list of strings and returns a new nested list with all strings capitalized?

This will capitalize them but only if there are no nested lists. t = ['this','that', ['other']] def capitalize_nested(t): res = [] for s in t: res.append(s.capitalize()) return res print capitalize_nested(t) I can't figure out…
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Is there a JS equivalent to CSS text-transform: capitalize?

I've got a hidden
that is comprised of divs that contain content to be stuffed into a jQuery UI dialog. On document.ready I want to loop through those divs, take the id of each respective div, replace dashes with spaces, capitalize each…
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need capitalize words with special chars in PHP

ucwords doesn't capitalize foreign chars like öüäõ so I need a solution, which will make "öösel" into "Öösel" Is there a simple way to do it with regexp or I have to check all the characters manually?
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Convert string to title case after dash or slash

I use this common function to convert most of my list items to title case with no issues. I've discovered one place that needs improvement, when there is a dash or slash in the middle, I want the next letter capitalized. For example Hispanic/latino…
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PHP - Capitalise first character of each word expect certain words

I have a batch of strings like so: tHe iPad hAS gONE ouT of STOCK PoWER uP YOur iPhone wHAT moDEL is YOUR aPPLE iPHOne I want to capitalise the first character of each word and have the remaining characters lowercase - except any references of…
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