Java Sentence Capitalizer

import javax.swing.JOptionPane; /**

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public class SentenceCapitalizer { public static void main (String[] args) { String input; // To hold keyboard input

//Get a string input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a string.");

// Display the strng with the first letter of each // sentence capitalized JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, sentenceCap(input));

// Exit the application. System.exit(0); }

/** The sentenceCAp method makes a copy of a string where in the copy the first letter of each sentence is capitalized. @param str The string to perform the operation on @return A reference to the sentence-capitalized copy */

public static String sentenceCAp(String str) { // The variable i will be used to get an index // within a string. int i;

// Create a StringBuilder object initialized with // the argument String. StringBuilder temp = new StringBuilder(str);

// Capitalize the first letter. if (temp.length() > 0) temp.setCharAt(0, Character.toUpperCase(temp.charAt(0)));

// Get the index of the first period followed by a space. i = temp.indexOf(". ");

while (i != -1) { // Increment i so it refers to the position of the space. i++;

// Find the first character of the next sentence while (i < temp.length() && temp.charAt(i) == ' ') i++;

// Capitalize the character. temp.setCharAt(i, Character.toUpperCase(temp.charAt(i)));

// Get the index of the next period followed by a space i = temp.indexOf(". ", i); } return temp.toString(); } }

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