I was wondering if there is anyway to use something like the toUpperCase for StringBuilder? Below is my code, I am trying to take user input of a phrase and turn it into an acronym. Someone helped me out by suggesting StringBuilder but I can't figure out if there is a way to make the acronym upper case. Any help is greatly appreciated.
public class ThreeLetterAcronym {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String threeWords;
int count = 0;
int MAX = 3;
char c;
//create stringbuilder
StringBuilder acronym = new StringBuilder();
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
//get user input for phrase
System.out.println("Enter your three words: ");
threeWords = scan.nextLine();
//create an array to split phrase into seperate words.
String[] threeWordsArray = threeWords.split(" ");
//loop through user input and grab first char of each word.
for(String word : threeWordsArray) {
if(count < MAX) {
acronym.append(word.substring(0, 1));
++count;
}//end if
}//end for
System.out.println("The acronym of the three words you entered is: " + acronym);
}//end main
}//end class
Just append upper case Strings to it :
acronym.append(word.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase())
or turn the String to upper case when getting the String from the StringBuilder :
System.out.println("The acronym of the three words you entered is: " + acronym.toString().toUpperCase());