Converting a char to uppercase

String lower = Name.toLowerCase();
int a = Name.indexOf(" ",0);
String first = lower.substring(0, a);
String last = lower.substring(a+1);
char f = first.charAt(0);
char l = last.charAt(0);
System.out.println(l);

how would i get the F and L variables converted to uppercase.

You can use Character#toUpperCase() for this.

char fUpper = Character.toUpperCase(f);
char lUpper = Character.toUpperCase(l);

It has however some limitations since the world is aware of many more characters than can ever fit in 16bit char range. See also the following excerpt of the javadoc:

> Note: This method cannot handle supplementary characters. To support all Unicode characters, including supplementary characters, use the toUpperCase(int) method.

Instead of using existing utilities, you may try below conversion using boolean operation:

To upper case:

 char upperChar = 'l' & 0x5f

To lower case:

   char lowerChar = 'L' ^ 0x20

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How it works:

Binary, hex and decimal table:

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| Binary   |   Hexadecimal     | Decimal |
-----------------------------------------
| 1011111  |    0x5f           |  95     |
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| 100000   |    0x20           |  32     |
------------------------------------------

Let's take an example of small l to L conversion:

The binary AND operation: (l & 0x5f)

l character has ASCII 108 and 01101100 is binary represenation.

   1101100
&  1011111
-----------
   1001100 = 76 in decimal which is **ASCII** code of L

Similarly the L to l conversion:

The binary XOR operation: (L ^ 0x20)

   1001100
^  0100000
-----------
   1101100 = 108 in decimal which is **ASCII** code of l

Have a look at the java.lang.Character class, it provides a lot of useful methods to convert or test chars.

f = Character.toUpperCase(f);
l = Character.toUpperCase(l);

Since you know the chars are lower case, you can subtract the according ASCII value to make them uppercase:

char a = 'a';
a -= 32;
System.out.println("a is " + a); //a is A

Here is an ASCII table for reference

System.out.println(first.substring(0,1).toUpperCase()); 
System.out.println(last.substring(0,1).toUpperCase());

If you are including the apache commons lang jar in your project than the easiest solution would be to do:

WordUtils.capitalize(Name)

takes care of all the dirty work for you. See the javadoc here

Alternatively, you also have a capitalizeFully(String) method which also lower cases the rest of the characters.

You can apply the .toUpperCase() directly on String variables or as an attribute to text fields. Ex: -

String str;
TextView txt;

str.toUpperCase();// will change it to all upper case OR
txt.append(str.toUpperCase());
txt.setText(str.toUpperCase());

I think you are trying to capitalize first and last character of each word in a sentence with space as delimiter.

Can be done through StringBuffer:

public static String toFirstLastCharUpperAll(String string){
    StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer(string);
        for(int i=0;i<sb.length();i++)
        	if(i==0 || sb.charAt(i-1)==' ' //for first character of string/each word
   	    		|| i==sb.length()-1 || sb.charAt(i+1)==' ') //for last character of string/each word
   	    		sb.setCharAt(i, Character.toUpperCase(sb.charAt(i)));
   	 return sb.toString();
}

Lets assume you have a variable you want split

String name = "Your name variable";
char nameChar = Character.toUpperCase(name.charAt(0));

The easiest solution for your case - change the first line, let it do just the opposite thing:

String lower = Name.toUpperCase ();

Of course, it's worth to change its name too.