String conversion, first character of the upper word

Question

I want to convert:

HECHT, WILLIAM 

to

 Hecht, William 

in c #.

any nifty ways to do this?

Answer 1

 string name = "HECHT, WILLIAM"; string s = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(name.ToLower()); 

(note that it only works from lower to upper, therefore, starting from lower case)

Answer 2

I would like to include an answer that indicates that, although this seems simple in theory, in practice the correct capitalization of each name can be very complex:

• Peter O'Toole
• Xavier Sala-i-Martin
• Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali and Domenon
• Francis Shehey-Skeffington
• Asma al-Assad
• Maggie Mack
• Vincent van Gogh

In any case, there’s just something to think about.

Answer 3

  public static string CamelCase(this string s) { if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(s)) s = ""; string phrase = ""; string[] words = s.Split(' '); foreach (string word in words) { if (word.Length > 1) phrase += word.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper() + word.Substring(1).ToLower() + " "; else phrase += word.ToUpper() + " "; } return phrase.Trim(); } 

Answer 4

I voted for Mark's answer, but this will also work:

 string s = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.StrConv("HECHT, WILLIAM", VbStrConv.ProperCase,0); 

You will need to add the appropriate links, but I'm sure it works on all the top inputs.