[Hajo]

I use to store all item names and similar lowercase, since most often they appear in the middle of a sentence, where they are needed lowercase.

But sometimes I should capitalize the first letter, if the word stands alone or at the beginning of a sentence.

I found code like this:

String firstLetter = word.substring(0,1);
String rest = word.substring(1);
String capitalizedWord = firstLetter.toUpperCase() + rest;

Now this works, but it generates some objects as side effect, which the garbage collector has to clean up later. And one of the places where I need to capitalize words is in the main display loop. I certainly do not want to generate a lot of garbage objects in the main display loop.

Does someone know a better solution? Any help will be greatly appreciated. If everything else fails, I'll keep the words twice in memory, lowercase and capitalized.

[Verious]

You could always write the code as:

[Hajo]