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Apache Commons Lang 3.0 is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library commons-lang3-3.0.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using WordUtils.initials() API. It extracts the first letter of the string and all first letters after the given delimiters without changing their case.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_lang/tests/gen/InitialsSepTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_lang.tests.gen;



import org.apache.commons.lang3.text.WordUtils;



public class InitialsSepTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {



    System.out.println(WordUtils.initials("be the coder", ' '));

    System.out.println(WordUtils.initials("Indian Police Service", ' '));

    System.out.println(WordUtils.initials("one, two, three, four", ',', ' '));

    System.out.println(WordUtils.initials("One:Two:Three:Four:Five", ':'));

    System.out.println(WordUtils.initials("be the coder", ','));

  }



}

Get Initials with Separator