Title case conversion of words

Title case conversion of words

• Radith

  Hi,

  I couldn't get this to compile. I put the using VB = Microsoft.VisualBasic; line in because my form already had the other two lines in anyway. The code wouldn't compile the first of the two Console lines because the Intellisense wouldn't pick up the Strings after the 'VB.'

  Since then, I have found another way using the following:

  using System.Globalization;
  using System.Threading;
  

  //Get the culture property of the thread.
  CultureInfo cultureInfo = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
  

  //Create TextInfo object.
  TextInfo textInfo = cultureInfo.TextInfo;
  

  MyString = ( textInfo.ToTitleCase(MyString.ToLower() ) );
  

  Some people complained that this method of Title Case didn't always work. I met with the same problem and my input string was entirely upper case. By changing the input string to lower case, then calling this facility, the conversion worked.

  Thanks for trying this. It was an interesting approach and I have never called any part of the Visual Basic system within a C# routine before!

  
  

• Bill YU

  Did you add the reference to the Microsoft.VisualBasic assembly in the Project References

  Anyway, glad you got it working.

  
  
  

• Alexander Marinov

  If you add a reference to the Microsoft.VisualBasic assembly, you can call the Strings.StrConv function to do this:

  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using VB = Microsoft.VisualBasic;
  
  namespace ConsoleApplication1
  {
  class Program
  {
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
  Console.WriteLine(VB.Strings.StrConv("HELLO WORLD", VB.VbStrConv.ProperCase, 0));
  Console.ReadLine();
  }
  }
  }

  
  
  

• m.a.fuchs

  You shouldn't need the .ToLower(). Nor the temp objects:

  MyString = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(MyString);

  this could also be abbreviated slightly to

  MyString = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(MyString);

  
  
  

• cheesenhomer

  In this case it was necessary. I found some messages on various websites saying that this conversion function was unreliable at the best of times.

  When I tried it without the .ToLower() function, the message still came out in upper case. Once the .ToLower() was inserted, it started working!

  Maybe there's a problem relating to the input of completely upper case letters.

  Anyway, I got my function working in the end, that's all that really matters!

  Sean.

  
  
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