Trying to capitalize the first character in array of strings, why this is not working?

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You have to actually re-assign the array element:

    for(var i = 1 ; i < newArr.length ; i++){
        newArr[i] = newArr[i].charAt(0).toUpperCase();
    }

The “toUpperCase()” function returns the new string but does not modify the original.

You might want to check to make sure that newArr[i] is the empty string first, in case you get an input string with two consecutive dashes.

edit — noted SO contributor @lonesomeday correctly points out that you also need to glue the rest of each string back on:

         newArr[i] = newArr[i].charAt(0).toUpperCase() + newArr[i].substr(1);

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