Chapter 8, Problem 3PC

Program Plan Intro

Sentence Capitalizer

Program Plan:

The detail of “SentenceCapitalizer” class is shown below:

• In the “main()” method,
  • Declare the required variable.
  • Read the input from the user.
  • Call the sentenceCap() method to display the string with the first letter of each sentence capitalized.
  • Exit the program.
• In the “sentenceCap()” method,
  • Declare the variable.
  • Create an object for StringBuffer class.
  • Check whether the string length is greater than “0”. If yes,
    • Capitalize the first letter of the string.
  • Get the index value of first period followed by a space.
  • The while loop executes until “i” is not equal to “-1”. If yes,
    • Increment “i” by “1”.
    • The while loop executes until the string length and string followed by space to find the first character of the next sentence.
    • Call the toUpperCase() method to capitalize the character.
    • Get the index value of the next period followed by a space.
  • Return the capitalized first character of sentence.