Question
Is there an existing library method that checks if a String is all upper case or lower case in Java?
I know there are plenty of upper()
methods in Java and other frameworks like Apache commons lang, which convert a String to all upper case.
Are there any common libraries that provide a method like isUpper(String s)
and isLower(String s)
, to check if all the characters in the String are upper or lower case?
EDIT:
Many good answers about converting to Upper and comparing to this. I guess I should have been a bit more specific, and said that I already had thought of that, but I was hoping to be able to use an existing method for this.
Good comment about possible inclusion of this in apache.commons.lang.StringUtils. Someone has even submitted a patch (20090310). Hopefully we will see this soon. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-471
EDIT:
What I needed this method for, was to capitalize names of hotels that sometimes came in all uppercase. I only wanted to capitalize them if they were all lower or upper case. I did run in to the problems with non letter chars mentioned in some of the posts, and ended up doing something like this:
private static boolean isAllUpper(String s) {
for(char c : s.toCharArray()) {
if(Character.isLetter(c) && Character.isLowerCase(c)) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
This discussion and differing solutions (with different problems), clearly shows that there is a need for a good solid isAllUpper(String s) method in commons.lang
Until then I guess that the myString.toUpperCase().equals(myString)
is the best way to go.