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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 which extracts the first letter from each word in the given string.

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


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



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



public class InitialsTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {

         

    System.out.println(WordUtils.initials(null));

    System.out.println(WordUtils.initials(""));

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

    System.out.println(WordUtils.initials("Indian Administrative Service"));

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

  }



}

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