capitalize Function

private elemental function capitalize(self) result(capitalized)

Arguments

TypeIntentOptionalAttributesName
class(string), intent(in) :: self

Return Value type(string)


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Source Code


Source Code

   elemental function capitalize(self) result(capitalized)
   !< Return a string with its first character capitalized and the rest lowercased.
   !<
   !<```fortran
   !< type(string) :: astring
   !< astring = 'say all Hello WorLD!'
   !< print '(L1)', astring%capitalize()//''=='Say all hello world!'
   !<```
   !=> T <<<
   class(string), intent(in) :: self        !< The string.
   type(string)              :: capitalized !< Upper case string.
   integer                   :: c           !< Character counter.

   if (allocated(self%raw)) then
     capitalized = self%lower()
     c = index(LOWER_ALPHABET, capitalized%raw(1:1))
     if (c>0) capitalized%raw(1:1) = UPPER_ALPHABET(c:c)
   endif
   endfunction capitalize