Java replace characters with uppercase around (before and after) specific character

Question

I have this kind of input

word w\'ord wo\'rd

I need to convert to uppercase both characters at the starts of the word and right after the <

Answer 1

Not as elegant as @Wiktor Stribizew post above but an attempt to do without regex:

public class HelloWorld{

 public static void main(String []args){
    String s ="word w'ord wo'r'd";
    System.out.println(upperCase(s,'\''));
 }
 private static int x = 1;
 private static String upperCase(String originalString, char delimeter)
 {
     if(originalString.length()==1)
     {
         return originalString;
     }
     int indexOfDelimeter = originalString.indexOf(delimeter);
     StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
     if(indexOfDelimeter<0)
     {
         return originalString;
     }
     String newBaseString = originalString.substring(indexOfDelimeter+2);
     if(indexOfDelimeter==0)
     {
         result.append(delimeter).append(Character.toUpperCase(originalString.charAt(indexOfDelimeter+1))).append(newBaseString);
     }
     else
     {
         result.append(originalString.substring(0,indexOfDelimeter-1)).append(Character.toUpperCase(originalString.charAt(indexOfDelimeter-1))).append(delimeter).append(Character.toUpperCase(originalString.charAt(indexOfDelimeter+1)));
     }
     if(indexOfDelimeter