Re: How to capiltalize only the first leter of a string?

[Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2013/2/25 Kevin Martin <kev82@khn.org.uk>:
> Do a gsub that matches a lowercase first letter and replaces it with the upper cased first character of the string.
>
> Something like: (don't have ref manual in front of me)
>
> str:gsub("^%l", str:sub(1):upper())

You can simplify that by passing the string.upper function to gsub,
which will then work with a simpler pattern:

Name = name:gsub("^.", string.upper)