Hi: I essentially peeled off the first char, forced it to upper case. Next I grabbed the rest of the string minus the first char and then put it back together but that's greasey. I was hoping for something like this: If first char is not capital then Make first char capital End if Many thanks Jim -----Original Message----- From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram Sent: April 21, 2009 16:32 To: program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-java] Re: Strings Two answers. Sure, you can do a toUpperCase on the first char of the string, but this does not make it any more legitamet. Basically, if you have something like EmployeeRecord, go back and jaws cursor over how I spelled that. Noticed that each word needs to be capitolized. Therefore, capitolizing the first letter only is honestly no more correct than just leaving them all lower case. If it's automated, then you don't have to have them be upper case, that's simply a strongly enforced and suggested style guideline. Regardless, here are the two javadoc pages you need for the string and char classes: String http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/ Character http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/ Take care, Sina ________________________________ From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corbett, James Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:03 PM To: program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-java] Strings Hi: I'm writing a program that will take a COBOL copybook record layout and creates automatically a java class with the corresponding fields, getters and setters and the necessary code for my CICS to CICS transaction. The UI is complete and so is most of the backend logic and now I'm just cleaning things up.... One thing I want to do is once I've selected my .cbl file from a file dialog is to check the first character of the file name.... If its lower case then convert it to upper case because the existing file name eventually becomes a .java file and as a standard all .java classes start with a capital letter.... I guess I'm looking at this way to hard because for the life of me I can't seem to dig my self out of this hole. Any ideas? Jim James M. Corbett A / Technical Specialist GST/HST Micros | Micros de la TPS/TVH GST/HST Redesign Division | Division de la restructuration de la TPS/TVH Revenue and Accounting Systems Directorate (RASD) | Direction des Systèmes de revenu et de comptabilité (DSRC) Information Technology Branch (ITB) | Direction générale de l'informatique (DGI) Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenue du Canada (613) 941-1338 "...Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?"