Apex has a String method to change all characters to lower case String.toLowerCase and a method to change all characters to upper case String.toUpperCase, but it doesn’t have a method to properly capitalize just the first letter of a name. This can be extremely frustrating when getting data from 3rd party sources that don’t handle it for you. Advanced coders can solve this with a regular expression but for the rest of us, we can use our existing tools like so:

	public static String proper(String s)
	{
		String result = '';
		if (s != null)
		{
			List<String> words = s.split(' ');
			for (String w : words)
			{
				String letter1 = w.substring(0,1).toUpperCase();
				result += letter1;
				if (w.length() > 1)
				{
					String letterx = w.substring(1,w.length()).toLowerCase();
					result += letterx;
				}
				result += ' ';
			}
			result.substring(0,result.length()-1);
		}
		return result;
	}