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Colin Hartmann
Courses Plus Student 2,875 PointsWhy 'RUBY' and not 'Ruby'?
Why, when we make a string .toUpperCase, do we have to make the answer all upper-case as in 'RUBY'? Is there a string property that could simply make the first letter of the string capitalized and the rest lower-case so that it could be 'Ruby'?
2 Answers
Greg Kaleka
39,021 PointsThere isn't a method (note: these are methods, not properties) to change to title case, as you suggest, but toUpperCase() works perfectly well for this. You could also use toLowerCase() and test against ruby. If you really wanted to, you could even use the toLowerCase() method, and then toUpperCase() on the first character of the string using the substring() method in order to get Ruby.
We're just testing equivalence, though - it doesn't need to look nice, necessarily. The point is to standardize the input so you can properly test against it. It doesn't have to be any specific capitalization, just so long as you're consistent with what you're testing against.
Kirby Abogaa
3,058 Pointsbecause we only want to make sure that the input is the same as the answer we are expecting...
so that even if the user input has uppercase or lowercase all over it,
example: Ruby or rUby or ruBy or RuBy.....
the .toUpperCase() function will convert the input to all uppercase before it is compared against a value also set to all uppercase..