How do you capitalize the first letter of a string?

[Gladstone]

How do you capitalize the first letter of a string? I'm fiddling around with an application I'm developing (vbscript in asp) which presents the need to do this and I'm a bit stumped. Don't see the answer in any of my books I have kicking around here. Didn't see the answer browsing around on the net. Seems like a simple thing to want to do. Probably is and I'm just sporting a case of the stupids. Anyone want to save me from further embarrassment?

Gladstone

[glenngv]

str = "glenn"
str = ucase(mid(str,1,1)) & mid(str,2)
response.write str

[Gladstone]

Thanks Glenn. Last night I came up with this one:

str = "gladstone"
str = ucase(left(str, 1)) + right(str, len(str)-1)
Response.Write str

Do you think either would be more efficient? I have to process alot of them at a time and a little gain will go a long way for me.

Gladstone

[whammy]

As far as I can tell, that kind of performance difference (if there is one) is negligible.

I'd do this though...

str = "gladstone"
If str <> "" Then
str = ucase(left(str, 1)) + right(str, len(str)-1)
End If
Response.Write str


Because you will get errors if the string doesn't exist otherwise.

[Mhtml]

lol...depending on how much time you have you could do it in any number of ways...

[whammy]

Yeah... there are many many ways to do it. :D