Ignore a letter in swift which starts with a Lower Case - ios

Question

Here's what I am trying to do :
let courseName = "Bachelor of Tourism Administration(B.T.A)".condensedWhitespace
let upperCaseCourseName = courseName.uppercaseString
let extrctCourseName = upperCaseCourseName.componentsSeparatedByString(" ").reduce("") { $0.0 + String($0.1.characters.first!) }
let upperCasecourseFirstCharcters = extrctCourseName
print(upperCasecourseFirstCharcters) // output : "BOTA" but i want "BTA"
as you see that my outPut of "Bachelor of Tourism Administration(B.T.A)" is BOTA but the desired output is BTA because word of is starting from a lowerCase and i want to ignore that word in my this method , how am gonna do that any idea ?

Answer 1

let courseName = "Bachelor of Tourism Administration(B.T.A)" //.condensedWhitespace
var newString = ""
let array : NSArray = courseName.componentsSeparatedByString(" ")
for chr in array {
let str = chr as! NSString
if str.lowercaseString != str{
if newString.characters.count > 0{
newString = newString.stringByAppendingString(" "+(str as String))
continue
}
newString = newString.stringByAppendingString((str as String))
}
}
let upperCaseCourseName = newString.uppercaseString
let extrctCourseName = upperCaseCourseName.componentsSeparatedByString(" ").reduce("") { $0.0 + String($0.1.characters.first!) }
let upperCasecourseFirstCharcters = extrctCourseName
print(upperCasecourseFirstCharcters)
//This will defiantly meet to your problem/. Let me know if it works for u or not

Answer 2

You can paste this into a playground:
extension String {
func array() -> [String] {
return self.componentsSeparatedByString(" ")
}
func abbreviate() -> String {
var output = ""
let array = self.array()
for word in array {
let index = word.startIndex.advancedBy(0)
let str = String(word[index])
if str.lowercaseString != str {
output += str
}
}
return output
}
}
let courseName = "Bachelor of Tourism Administration(B.T.A)".abbreviate()
print(courseName) // prints BTA

Answer 3

A clean approach would be:
extension Character
{
public func isUpper() -> Bool
{
let characterString = String(self)
return (characterString == characterString.uppercaseString) && (characterString != characterString.lowercaseString)
}
}
let courseName = "Bachelor of Tourism Administration(B.T.A)"
let upperCaseCourseName = courseName
let extrctCourseName = upperCaseCourseName.componentsSeparatedByString(" ").reduce("") {
if($0.1.characters.first!.isUpper()) {
return $0.0 + String($0.1.characters.first!)
}else {
return $0.0
}
}