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Extension Methods - ToProper (Proper case)
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May 28, 2008 5:19 PM
Today, I ran into a situation where I needed to proper case a string for display purposes. After a little research on Google, I found a few snippets and put them together to make this extension method:

public static string ToProper(this string value)
{
    return Regex.Replace(value, @"\b(\w)(\w+)?\b", new MatchEvaluator(match => 
                    string.Concat(match.Groups[1].Value.ToUpper(), 
                    match.Groups[2].Value)), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
}

This will take a string and convert it into proper case by capitalizing the first letter of each word. Hopefully, this will help someone else out.
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Comment posted on Jul 28, 2008 5:06 AM
Naz
Hi, Here's a alternative way you can do it.

public static string ToTitleCase(this string s)
{
return Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(s.ToLower());
}
Naz
Comment posted on Jul 28, 2008 1:12 PM
Brian
Wow, that's extremely helpful. Thanks for the input.
Brian
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