X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=src%2Fjalview%2Futil%2FStringUtils.java;h=b5ab40df65c9c121000b017044ee344eb3e84b0d;hb=5078a67d8357697791d2e71f9df95a46e762aa2e;hp=1c9d7b7a493a7ec1606262c13fc80077cf94722a;hpb=1c6ddae580d69eb0fa5b4291ba84fd6ba9b83621;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/StringUtils.java b/src/jalview/util/StringUtils.java
index 1c9d7b7..b5ab40d 100644
--- a/src/jalview/util/StringUtils.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/StringUtils.java
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ public class StringUtils
     }
     return "" + separator;
   }
-  
+
   /**
    * Converts a list to a string with a delimiter before each term except the
    * first. Returns an empty string given a null or zero-length argument. This
@@ -383,4 +383,24 @@ public class StringUtils
      */
     return 0;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Converts the string to all lower-case except the first character which is
+   * upper-cased
+   * 
+   * @param s
+   * @return
+   */
+  public static String toSentenceCase(String s)
+  {
+    if (s == null)
+    {
+      return s;
+    }
+    if (s.length() <= 1)
+    {
+      return s.toUpperCase();
+    }
+    return s.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1).toLowerCase();
+  }
 }