Question

Write a method that accepts a String object as an argument and returns a copy of the string with the first character of each sentence capitalized. For instance, if the argument is "hello. my name is Joe. what is your name?" the method should return the string "Hello. My name is Joe. What is your name?" Demonstrate the method in a program that asks the user to input a string and then passes it to the method. The modified string should be displayed on the screen.

Answer 1

Answer:

The programming language is not stated; However, the program written in C++ is as follows: (See Attachment)

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

string capt(string result)

{

result[0] = toupper(result[0]);

for(int i =0;i<result.length();i++){

 if(result[i]=='.' || result[i]=='?' ||result[i]=='!')  {

 if(result[i+1]==' ') {

  result[i+2] = toupper(result[i+2]);

 }

 if(result[i+2]==' ')  {

  result[i+3] = toupper(result[i+3]);

 }

 } }

return result;

}

int main(){

string sentence;

getline(cin,sentence);

cout<<capt(sentence);

return 0;

}

Explanation:

The method to capitalize first letters of string starts here

string capt(string result){

This line capitalizes the first letter of the sentence

result[0] = toupper(result[0]);

This iteration iterates through each letter of the input sentence

for(int i =0;i<result.length();i++){

This checks if the current character is a period (.), a question mark (?) or an exclamation mark (!)

if(result[i]=='.' || result[i]=='?' ||result[i]=='!')  {

 if(result[i+1]==' '){  ->This condition checks if the sentence is single spaced

  result[i+2] = toupper(result[i+2]);

-> If both conditions are satisfied, a sentence is detected and the first letter is capitalized

 }

 if(result[i+2]==' '){ ->This condition checks if the sentence is double spaced

  result[i+3] = toupper(result[i+3]);

-> If both conditions are satisfied, a sentence is detected and the first letter is capitalized

 }

}

}  The iteration ends here

return result;  ->The new string is returned here.

}

The main method starts here

int main(){

This declares a string variable named sentence

string sentence;

This gets the user input

getline(cin,sentence);

This passes the input string to the method defined above

cout<<capt(sentence);

return 0;

}

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